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Cervical thymoma [PDF]

open access: yesSao 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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Pre-existing antiacetylcholine receptor autoantibodies and B cell lymphopaenia are associated with the development of myositis in patients with thymoma treated with avelumab, an immune checkpoint inhibitor targeting programmed death-ligand 1

open access: yesAnnals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 2018
Immune checkpoint inhibitors enhance the immune response against tumours but may also trigger immune-related adverse events (IRAEs). Myositis is a rare IRAE.
A. Mammen   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Thymoma calcification: Is it clinically meaningful?

open access: yesWorld 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
doaj   +1 more source

Thymoma and cancer [PDF]

open access: yesCancer, 1968
Twenty-one per cent (31 of 146) of patients who had thymoma and whose condition was followed for 20 years had a malignant lesion of a nonthymic tissue. In contrast, 8% (15 of 177) of patients who had a parathyroid adenoma had a malignant neoplasm of another tissue.
Murray N. Silverstein   +2 more
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Classification and staging of thymoma

open access: yesJournal of Thoracic Disease, 2020
The appropriate therapy and prognosis of patients with thymic malignancies is decisively influenced by the local extent and dissemination of the tumor. For this reason, a staging system that reflects these factors is essential.
Till Markowiak, H. Hofmann, M. Ried
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tumour size determines both recurrence-free survival and disease-specific survival after surgical treatment for thymoma.

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2019
OBJECTIVES The tumour, node and the metastasis (TNM) staging system for thymic epithelial tumours was adopted by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) in 2016.
M. Okumura   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fibrous bands associated with higher Masaoka stage and poor recurrence‐free survival in patients with thymoma

open access: yesThoracic Cancer, 2021
Background Fibrous bands (FBs) are one of the histological features in tumors which can be confirmed by hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)‐stained slides. FBs have been reported to correlate with malignancy in various tumors.
Kazuhiro Minami   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Significance of YAP1–MAML2 rearrangement and GTF2I mutation in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of metaplastic thymoma

open access: yesAnnals 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
doaj   +1 more source

Androgen receptors beyond prostate cancer: an old marker as a new target. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Androgen receptors (ARs) play a critical role in the development of prostate cancer. Targeting ARs results in important salutary effects in this malignancy.
Kurzrock, Razelle   +2 more
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Malignant thymoma [PDF]

open access: yesCancer, 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.
Torng-Sen Lin   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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