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Applied Radiology, 2016 Thymic carcinomas are a heterogeneous group of aggressive, invasive epithelial malignancies. Their incidence is rare, occurring predominantly in middle-aged men. Here we present the typical imaging findings of a thymic carcinoma. The combination of imaging characteristics with tumor location and patient age provides a roadmap for approaching the ...
Costas Stavrakis +3 more
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Successful Chemotherapy with Carboplatin and S-1 for Thymic Carcinoma: A Case Report
Case Reports in Oncology, 2013 Thymic carcinoma is a rare but aggressive neoplasm. Although there is no clearly optimal first- or second-line chemotherapy regimen for thymic carcinoma, platinum-based chemotherapy has repeatedly been shown to be of benefit to patients with advanced ...
Satoshi Igawa +7 more
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Case Reports in Oncology, 2014 Little information is available about the usefulness of concurrent chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced thymic carcinoma due to a rare anterior mediastinal tumor.
Toshirou Fukushima +5 more
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Hepatoid thymic carcinoma: a case report of a rare subtype of thymic carcinoma [PDF]
Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine, 2021 Hepatoid thymic carcinoma is an extremely rare subtype of primary thymus tumor resembling "pure" hepatoid adenocarcinomas with hepatocyte paraffin 1 (Hep-Par-1) expression. A 53-year-old man presented with voice change and a neck mass. Multiple masses involving the thyroid, cervical and mediastinal lymph nodes, and lung were detected on computed ...
Ji-Seon Jeong +5 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Thymic carcinoma is a rare and aggressive disease with poor outcome. There is no established treatment regimen for advanced thymic carcinoma. While the efficacy of pembrolizumab was proved to be promising, as a single agent, in patients with refractory ...
Cui Chen, Peng Sun, Jianting Long
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Thymic carcinoma metastasize to the small intestine: a case report
BMC Gastroenterology, 2020 Background Thymic carcinoma is a rare mediastinal neoplasm with a high malignant potential. It often shows pleural invasion and distant metastasis. The metastasis of thymic carcinoma to the small intestine is rarely reported and difficult to distinguish ...
Yi Yuan +4 more
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Respirology Case Reports, 2020 A 63‐year‐old man presented with bilateral ptosis, and detailed evaluation confirmed ocular myasthenia gravis with three anterior mediastinal masses on computed tomography (CT) of the chest.
Chu‐Pin Pai +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 To evaluate the value of texture analysis based on dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) in the differential diagnosis of thymic carcinoma and thymic lymphoma. Sixty-nine patients with pathologically confirmed (thymic carcinoma, n = 32; thymic lymphoma,
Jia-jia Zhu +6 more
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Total thymectomy for thymic lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma—report of two cases
Surgical Case Reports, 2019 Background Thymic carcinoma has been classified into 12 subtypes, thymic lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELC) is a type of them, and has a pathological organization similar to that of lymphoepithelioma, an undifferentiated type of nasopharyngeal ...
Sachi Kawagishi +8 more
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Thoracic Cancer, 2023 Background Thymic squamous cell carcinoma and type B3 thymoma are primary neoplasms of the anterior mediastinum that are sometimes difficult to differentiate from one another histologically.
Koichiro Kanamori +19 more
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