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Sao Paulo Medical Journal, 1999 CONTEXT: Cervical thymoma is a primitive thymic neoplasia. It is very rare. This disease presents higher incidence in female patients in their 4th to 6th decade of life. We present a case report of a cervical thymoma CASE REPORT: 54-year-old female patient, caucasian, with no history of morbidity, presenting a left cervical nodule close to the thyroid ...
Abrão Rapoport +3 more
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Immune-Related Molecular Profiling of Thymoma With Myasthenia Gravis
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Background: Approximately 50% of thymoma patients also show myasthenia gravis (MG), which is an autoimmune disease; however, the pathogenesis of MG-associated thymoma remains elusive.
Jinman Zhuang +19 more
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Annals of Medicine, 2023 Background Metaplastic thymoma (MT) is a very uncommon thymoma type, with biphasic differentiation as one of its histological characteristics. This histological pattern, however, can also be mistaken for type A thymoma and the A component in type AB ...
Minghao Wang +3 more
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Sclerosing thymoma-like thymic amyloidoma with nephrotic syndrome: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2017 Background Primary localized amyloidosis presenting as an isolated mediastinal mass is extremely rare, especially in the thymus. Sclerosing thymoma is also an extremely rare anterior mediastinal tumor, pathologically characterized by extensive sclerotic ...
Yuto Kato +8 more
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Autoimmune alopecia areata due to thymoma without myasthenia gravis: a case report
Surgical Case Reports, 2023 Background Thymoma is associated with autoimmune diseases. Myasthenia gravis is frequently associated with thymoma, but cases of thymoma complicated by alopecia areata are very rare.
Yukino Saito +9 more
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Zhongliu Fangzhi Yanjiu, 2021 Objective To evaluate the correlation of prognostic nutritional index(PNI) with overall survival of postoperative patients with thymoma. Methods The clinical and pathological data of 173 postoperative patients with thymoma were analyzed retrospectively ...
WANG Yan +3 more
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Cancer, 1992 Sixty-one patients underwent operations for malignant thymomas between 1961 and 1989. Twenty-three patients had associated myasthenia gravis (MG), an incidence of 37.7%. Upon being admitted to the hospital, the patients' most common symptoms included chest pain, MG, cough, and dyspnea. Only 7 of 61 (11.5%) patients had no symptom.
L S, Wang +4 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019 Introduction Micronodular thymoma with lymphoid stroma is a rare subtype of thymoma. Here we report a case of micronodular thymoma with lymphoid stroma that was completely resected after incomplete resection 10 years earlier.
Yasunori Kaminuma +7 more
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Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2015 Sclerosing thymoma is an extremely rare entity described mostly in the recent past and, to our knowledge, described in only 14 cases, including one we recently diagnosed at our institution. The pathogenesis and biologic behavior of this relatively unknown entity is still largely uncertain.
Deyali, Chatterjee, Christie Jean, Finch
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Thymoma calcification: Is it clinically meaningful?
World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2011 Among anterior mediastinal lesions, thymoma is the most common. Thymomas are tumors of thymic epithelial cell origin that are distinguished by inconsistent histological and biologic behavior.
Alkaied Homam +4 more
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