A Case of Vanishing Thymoma.
Journal
The Annals of thoracic surgery
ISSN: 1552-6259
Titre abrégé: Ann Thorac Surg
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 15030100R
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2020
08 2020
Historique:
received:
10
10
2019
revised:
22
11
2019
accepted:
07
12
2019
pubmed:
29
1
2020
medline:
1
9
2020
entrez:
29
1
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Cystic thymoma is a rare clinicopathologic entity. Chronic inflammation within and around these tumors has been suggested to compromise the vascular supply, leading to hemorrhage into the lesion and necrosis. This can result in rapid expansion of the tumor and symptoms owing to local compression. We present the case of a patient with a biopsy-proven lymphocytic-predominant thymoma who underwent resection to reveal a hemorrhagic, necrotic mediastinal cyst adjacent to a focus of organizing pneumonia, with no residual thymoma.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31987824
pii: S0003-4975(20)30072-2
doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.12.021
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e107-e109Informations de copyright
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