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Cyclosporine is a potential curative treatment option for advanced thymoma
Experimental Hematology & Oncology, 2017 Background Thymectomy can effectively cure most thymoma patients; however, patients with advanced thymoma typically require chemotherapy, which is associated with limited efficacy in this context.
Yusuke Isshiki +3 more
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Paraneoplastic pemphigus regression after thymoma resection [PDF]
World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2008 Background Among human neoplasms thymomas are associated with highest frequency with paraneoplastic autoimmune diseases. Case presentation A case of a 42-year-old woman with paraneoplastic pemphigus as the first manifestation of thymoma is reported ...
Stergiou Eleni +7 more
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Thymoma-associated T-cell immunodeficiency after radiotherapy: A case report
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021 Acquired immunodeficiency in thymoma (Good's syndrome) without hypogammaglobulinemia is a rare condition. Here we describe the case of a 29-year-old Japanese woman with thymoma-associated T cell immunodeficiency after radiation therapy.
Kensuke Nakagawara +13 more
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Jurnal RespirasiIntroduction: Size is a predictor factor of a patient’s prognosis and metastasis in solid tumors. This study determined the relationship between thymoma size and distant metastasis.
Novita Silvana Thomas +4 more
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The role of regulatory B cell/T follicular helper cell balance in thymoma and thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThymoma is often associated with myasthenia gravis (MG). Abnormal lymphocyte differentiation often occurs in the thymoma tumor microenvironment (TME), leading to thymoma-associated autoimmune diseases.
Peng Zhang +12 more
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Nephrotic Syndrome Associated with Thymoma
Journal of Cancer Research and Practice, 2014 Thymoma is associated with a wide variety of paraneoplastic syndromes such as myasthenia gravis, pure red cell aplasia, and hypogammaglobulinemia. Paraneoplastic glomerulonephritis is a rare clinical presentation of malignancy.
Sheng-Yen Hsiao +3 more
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Thymoma masquerading as transfusion dependent anemia
Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology, 2016 Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) is a known entity in clinical medicine. Patients are often transfusion dependent for their whole life. Ascertaining its etiology is always a herculean task.
Javvid Muzamil +5 more
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A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mass: Thymoma and Thymic Tumor [PDF]
, 2023 Thymomas and thymic carcinomas are rare mediastinal neoplasms arising from thymic epithelial cells, and the presence of synchronous or metachronous primary thymic neoplasms in a single patient is an extremely rare event.
Dias, Rita R +9 more
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Ectopic thymoma simulating a pericardial cyst [PDF]
, 2005 We present a case of a 53 year old man with a thymoma near the pericardium, a rare ectopic localisation of thymoma. A round radiodensity found at the right cardiophrenic angle was initially suspected at the echocardiography to be a pericardial cyst.
A. Papi +10 more
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Cancer, 1977 Forty-six thymomas, defined as neoplasms of thymic epithelium, were assessed in respect to histologic type, clinical manifestations and end results. Twenty-three were lymphoepithelial, 12 epithelial, and 11 spindled cell tumors. The sex distribution for all thymomas was approximately equal for males and females but the lymphoepithelial tumors were more
D P, LeGolvan, M R, Abell
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