[Experience of surgical treatment of the thymic gland tumors]

The forty-years experience of treatment of 125 patients with thymic gland tumors was summarized, in 113 of them thymoma was revealed. In the disease of I-II stages the five-year survival index had constituted 75.6%, and in III-IV stages the method of choice is combined treatment, after which the five-years survival index does not exceed 31.2%. It is necessary to perform additional studying of factors, influencing the result of treatment of the thymic gland tumor.