Annual Congress Vienna 2012

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Diagnosis and management of thymic malignancies: an update

Symposium
Chairs: B. Grigoriu (Iasi, Romania), M. Lucchi (Pisa, Italy)
Aims: The symposium is designed to be both a short refresher course on the diagnosis and management of thymic tumours but also increase awareness about the actual problems raised when managing thymoma,and an up-to-date presentation of current classification, diagnosis strategy and the most common issues in therapeutic management.

Thymic tumours: update on classification and prognostic factors P. Stroebel (Gottingen, Germany)
Diagnostic work-up and staging of thymoma E. Ruffini (Turin, Italy)
Strategy in initially resectable thymoma P. Van Schil (Antwerp, Belgium)