Open AccessElevated pretreatment serum lactate dehydrogenase level predicts inferior overall survival and disease-free survival after resection of thymic carcinoma
Author(s) -
Qianwen Liu,
Xiayu Fu,
Xiaodong Su,
Xin Wang,
Yijun Zhang,
Hong Yang,
Yi Hu,
Jing Wen,
Jianhua Fu
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2017.10.86
Subject(s) - medicine , lactate dehydrogenase , overall survival , thymic carcinoma , resection , disease , carcinoma , oncology , surgery , enzyme , chemotherapy , biology , biochemistry
The prognostic significance of serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level in thymic carcinoma (TC) remains unclear. Therefore, we evaluated the role of pretreatment serum LDH level in the prognosis for TC in this study.
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