Editorial on “assessment of the ITMIG statement on the WHO histological classification and of the 8th TNM staging of thymic epithelial tumors, of a series of 188 thymic epithelial tumors”

Thymic epithelial neoplasms are malignant tumors arising from the thymus that account for 0.2–1.5% of all malignancies but are the most common non-lymphomatous primary neoplasms of the anterior mediastinum (1,2).