Primary glomus tumor of the thymus in a 66-year-old patient.
Glomus tumor
Smooth muscle actin
Thoracoscopic thymectomy
Thymus
Journal
Journal of cardiothoracic surgery
ISSN: 1749-8090
Titre abrégé: J Cardiothorac Surg
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101265113
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024
Historique:
received:
17
03
2024
accepted:
25
05
2024
medline:
11
6
2024
pubmed:
11
6
2024
entrez:
10
6
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We report a unique case of a 66-year-old man who was incidentally identified to have a mass in the thymus region by computerized tomography scan. CT revealed a well-defined 1.6 × 1 × 0.9 cm thymus mass with moderate uniform enhancement. Thoracoscopic thymectomy was performed, and the pathological diagnosis was primary glomus tumor of the thymus. There were no atypia or malignant histological features, and no primary tumors in other sites. To our knowledge, this is the first case of primary thymic glomus tumor reported in the literature.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38858712
doi: 10.1186/s13019-024-02806-8
pii: 10.1186/s13019-024-02806-8
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
328Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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