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Table 2 Clinical features of different thymoma classified according Masaoka Stagea

From: The role of a pseudocapsula in thymic epithelial tumors: outcome and correlation with established prognostic parameters. Results of a 20-year single centre retrospective analysis

Masaoka

n

R0-status

N1

M1

Recurrence

5-year survival (%)

I

42

42 (100%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

97.6

II

19

18 (94.7%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

1 (5.3%)

94.7

III

9

6 (66.7%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

66.7

IV

14

5 (35.7%)

6 (42.8%)

8 (57.1)

1 (7%)

64.3

  1. aData are presented as mean ± SD unless otherwise indicated