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Table 3 Characteristics of the studies included in the meta-analysis: relationship between BPTPs and Masaoka staging

From: Relationship of possible biomarkers with malignancy of thymic tumors: a meta-analysis

First author	Year	Country	Ethnicity	No. of patients	Median age (years)
T. Mimae [12]	2012	Japan	Japanese	140	54
Hisashi Tateyama [30]	2011	Japan	Japanese	99	54
Yuqing Ma [17]	2012	China	Chinese	60	48.5
Jun Du [13]	2016	China	Chinese	43	51

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