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===Staging===
===Staging===
There is a system by Masaoka and colleagues.<ref name=pmid7296496 >{{Cite journal  | last1 = Masaoka | first1 = A. | last2 = Monden | first2 = Y. | last3 = Nakahara | first3 = K. | last4 = Tanioka | first4 = T. | title = Follow-up study of thymomas with special reference to their clinical stages. | journal = Cancer | volume = 48 | issue = 11 | pages = 2485-92 | month = Dec | year = 1981 | doi =  | PMID = 7296496 }}</ref>
There is a system by Masaoka and colleagues.<ref name=pmid7296496 >{{Cite journal  | last1 = Masaoka | first1 = A. | last2 = Monden | first2 = Y. | last3 = Nakahara | first3 = K. | last4 = Tanioka | first4 = T. | title = Follow-up study of thymomas with special reference to their clinical stages. | journal = Cancer | volume = 48 | issue = 11 | pages = 2485-92 | month = Dec | year = 1981 | doi =  | PMID = 7296496 }}</ref>
==Metaplastic thymoma==
*[[AKA]] ''thymoma with pseudosarcomatous stroma''.<ref name=metapl_thy/>
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=metapl_thy>URL: [http://surgpathcriteria.stanford.edu/thymus/thymoma/metaplastic_thymoma.html http://surgpathcriteria.stanford.edu/thymus/thymoma/metaplastic_thymoma.html]. Accessed on: 22 December 2011.</ref>
#Epithelioid cells.
#Spindle cells.
*Few lymphocytes.
===IHC===
CD5 -ve.<ref name=metapl_thy>URL: [http://surgpathcriteria.stanford.edu/thymus/thymoma/metaplastic_thymoma.html http://surgpathcriteria.stanford.edu/thymus/thymoma/metaplastic_thymoma.html]. Accessed on: 22 December 2011.</ref>


==Thymic carcinoma==
==Thymic carcinoma==
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