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Unraveling the role of ectopic thymic tissue in patients undergoing thymectomy for myasthenia gravis [PDF]
, 2019 Extended thymectomy has been considered the goal of surgery for myasthenia gravis (MG) mainly due to the existence of ectopic thymic tissue. Recently, ectopic thymic tissue has attracted increasing attention in patients with MG following thymectomy ...
Bauer, Gero +9 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.
Torng-Sen Lin +4 more
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European 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
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Classification and staging of thymoma
Journal 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
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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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Diagnostic accuracy of multidetector computed tomography scan in mediastinal masses assuming histopathological findings as gold standard [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: Aim of the study was to: 1) present MDCT characteristics of different mediastinal mass lesions, 2) estimate proportion of benign and malignant mediastinal mass lesions based on MDCT findings, and 3) find out the diagnostic accuracy with ...
Jaipal, Usha +3 more
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Mediastinum, 2019 The treatment of thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) in children may pose a serious problem. This is because thymic tumors—thymomas and thymic carcinomas, are extremely rare in patients of this age group, and thus a consistent treatment scheme has not been established.
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Cancer, 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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Thoracic 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
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 BackgroundMyasthenia gravis (MG) is the most common paraneoplastic syndromes of thymoma and closely related to thymus abnormalities. Timely detecting of the risk of MG would benefit clinical management and treatment decision for patients with thymoma ...
Zhenguo Liu +16 more
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