A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mass: Thymoma and Thymic Tumor

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. Thymoma patients appear to have an inherent predisposition toward developing ad...

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Autores principales: Moura de Azevedo, Sofia, Baptista, Patrícia, Pichel, Rita C, Dias, Rita R, Bertão, Manuela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10369011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37503485
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40956
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author Moura de Azevedo, Sofia
Baptista, Patrícia
Pichel, Rita C
Dias, Rita R
Bertão, Manuela
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description 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. Thymoma patients appear to have an inherent predisposition toward developing additional neoplasms. This additionally presents a diagnostic challenge, revealing the importance of multidisciplinary expertise to the management of these patients. This is a case report of a patient with a thymoma and thymic carcinoma, submitted to surgical resection and postoperative radiotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-103690112023-07-27 A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mass: Thymoma and Thymic Tumor Moura de Azevedo, Sofia Baptista, Patrícia Pichel, Rita C Dias, Rita R Bertão, Manuela Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery 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. Thymoma patients appear to have an inherent predisposition toward developing additional neoplasms. This additionally presents a diagnostic challenge, revealing the importance of multidisciplinary expertise to the management of these patients. This is a case report of a patient with a thymoma and thymic carcinoma, submitted to surgical resection and postoperative radiotherapy. Cureus 2023-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10369011/ /pubmed/37503485 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40956 Text en Copyright © 2023, Moura de Azevedo et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
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Dias, Rita R
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A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mass: Thymoma and Thymic Tumor
title A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mass: Thymoma and Thymic Tumor
title_full A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mass: Thymoma and Thymic Tumor
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mass: Thymoma and Thymic Tumor
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mass: Thymoma and Thymic Tumor
title_short A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mass: Thymoma and Thymic Tumor
title_sort rare case of mediastinal mass: thymoma and thymic tumor
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10369011/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40956
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