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. 2014 Mar 19;9:51. doi: 10.1186/1749-8090-9-51

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Freedom from recurrence and freedom from local recurrence after 1:1 exact matching by size and stage of tumor. (A) The 5-, 10- and 15-year freedom from recurrence rates were 98.7%, 94.2% and 86.6% in the extended thymectomy group, 98.7%, 93.1% and 70.0% in the limited thymectomy group, p = 0.162; p = 0.125 after adjusting with WHO histologic type and the presence of myasthenia gravis). (B) Freedom from local recurrence after 1:1 exact matching. There was no local recurrence in the extended thymectomy group. The 10- and 15-year freedom from recurrence rates were 97.4% and 85.9% in the limited thymectomy group.