Recent advances in managing differentiated thyroid cancer [PDF]
, 2018 The main clinical challenge in the management of thyroid cancer is to avoid over-treatment and over-diagnosis in patients with lower-risk disease while promptly identifying those patients with more advanced or high-risk disease requiring aggressive ...
Durante, Cosimo +3 more
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Carcinoid tumor of the anterior mediastinum in a 38-year-old woman
Radiology Case Reports, 2020 Mediastinal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are very rare. They have been estimated to account for approximately 2%-4% of all anterior mediastinal neoplasms. Carcinoid tumors are a type of NET that can occur in a number of locations.
Khoren Abelian, ME +4 more
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Thymoma metastatic to liver and pancreas: case report and review of the literature [PDF]
, 2017 A 71-year-old man presented with a thymic mass involving the superior vena cava. A mediastinoscopical biopsy initially suggested a diagnosis of type A thymoma.
Blandamura, Stella +4 more
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Mediastinal germ cell tumors: a narrative review of their traits and aggressiveness features.
Mediastinum, 2021 Objective Mediastinal extragonadal germ-cell tumors (MEGCTs) are rare neoplasms with a multifaceted clinical behavior. This paper is devoted to review their main characteristics, including histological patterns and different factors of aggressiveness in ...
G. M. Pini, M. Colecchia
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Bronchogenic cysts mimicking thymoma in the anterior mediastinum
Respirology Case Reports, 2020 Bronchogenic cysts are commonly located in the middle mediastinal compartment as fluid‐filled cysts and thymoma is one of the most common neoplasms in the anterior mediastinum in adult cases.
Jonggeun Lee, Jee Won Chang
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Conflicting or complementary role of computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET)/CT in the assessment of thymic cancer and thymoma: Our experience and literature review [PDF]
, 2015 Background: To evaluate the role of computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET)/CT in patients with thymic cancer and thymoma at initial staging.
Calabrese, Fiorella +6 more
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Commentary on the WHO classification of tumors of lymphoid tissues (2008): “Gray zone” lymphomas overlapping with Burkitt lymphoma or classical Hodgkin lymphoma [PDF]
, 2009 The 2008 WHO Classification of Tumors of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues has introduced two new categories of high-grade B-cell lymphomas: entities in which features of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) overlap with Burkitt lymphoma (DLBCL/BL) or
Daphne de Jong +5 more
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Seminars in diagnostic pathology, 2020 Malignant lymphoma may involve the mediastinum as a component of disseminated disease or as a primary lesion. The most common types of primary mediastinal lymphomas (ML) are Hodgkin's disease (HD, usually of the nodular sclerosis type), large cell ...
J. Strickler, Paul J. Kurtin
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Cancers, 2021 Simple Summary The germ cell tumors (GCTs) family is a heterogeneous group of neoplasms that includes tumors affecting testis (TGCTs) and rarer cases occurring in extragonadal sites.
M. Urbini +7 more
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Case Report: Multidisciplinary Approach for a Rare Case of Thymic Vascular Malformation
Frontiers in Surgery, 2021 We report the rare case of a 2.5 cm in size mass diagnostic for residual thymus associated with venous vascular malformation (ISSVA classification, 2008) in a 58 years old man.
Federico Raveglia +6 more
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