Metastatic Thymoma of the Breast

Breast metastasis from nonmammary malignant neoplasms is uncommon, and it accounts for approximately 2% of all breast tumors. Distant metastasis of thymoma is very rare, and especially to extrathorcic areas. We report a female who had a metastatic thymoma in her breast 20 years after undergoing rese...

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Autores principales: Kim, Sung Mok, Ko, Eun Young, Han, Boo-Kyung, Shin, Jung Hee, Kang, Seok Seon, Nam, Seok-Jin, Cho, Eun Yoon
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Radiological Society 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18253080
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2008.9.1.80
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author Kim, Sung Mok
Ko, Eun Young
Han, Boo-Kyung
Shin, Jung Hee
Kang, Seok Seon
Nam, Seok-Jin
Cho, Eun Yoon
author_facet Kim, Sung Mok
Ko, Eun Young
Han, Boo-Kyung
Shin, Jung Hee
Kang, Seok Seon
Nam, Seok-Jin
Cho, Eun Yoon
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description Breast metastasis from nonmammary malignant neoplasms is uncommon, and it accounts for approximately 2% of all breast tumors. Distant metastasis of thymoma is very rare, and especially to extrathorcic areas. We report a female who had a metastatic thymoma in her breast 20 years after undergoing resection for a non-invasive thymoma. She presented with a palpable mass in her left breast. Mammography and ultrasonogram showed a lobular mass at the anterior glandular portion. Histological examination after surgical excision revealed a metastatic thymoma.
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spelling pubmed-26271702009-02-17 Metastatic Thymoma of the Breast Kim, Sung Mok Ko, Eun Young Han, Boo-Kyung Shin, Jung Hee Kang, Seok Seon Nam, Seok-Jin Cho, Eun Yoon Korean J Radiol Case Report Breast metastasis from nonmammary malignant neoplasms is uncommon, and it accounts for approximately 2% of all breast tumors. Distant metastasis of thymoma is very rare, and especially to extrathorcic areas. We report a female who had a metastatic thymoma in her breast 20 years after undergoing resection for a non-invasive thymoma. She presented with a palpable mass in her left breast. Mammography and ultrasonogram showed a lobular mass at the anterior glandular portion. Histological examination after surgical excision revealed a metastatic thymoma. The Korean Radiological Society 2008 2008-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2627170/ /pubmed/18253080 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2008.9.1.80 Text en Copyright © 2008 The Korean Radiological Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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