Increased expression of matrix metallopr
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Ken-ichi Sogawa; Kazuya Kondo; Haruhiko Fujino; Yuji Takahashi; Takanori Miyoshi
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND A distinction between noninvasive, invasive, and metastatic thymoma on the basis of the cytologic features is difficult. The current study investigated whether the expression of MMP and TIMP was correlated with tumor invasiveness and prognosis in patients with thymoma. #