Spontaneous mediastinal haemorrhage linked with thymic carcinoma and myelodysplasia: a case report

We report an unusual sequence of clinico-pathological manifestations of myelodysplastic syndrome and thymic squamous cell carcinoma. A 77-year-old man with a two-month history of myelodysplastic syndrome was admitted with acute chest pain and shortness of breath. Radiological investigations revealed...

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Autores principales: Fernando, Suresh R, Van Tornout, Filip, Ball, Richard Y, Wimperis, Jennie Z
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830017
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7821
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author Fernando, Suresh R
Van Tornout, Filip
Ball, Richard Y
Wimperis, Jennie Z
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description We report an unusual sequence of clinico-pathological manifestations of myelodysplastic syndrome and thymic squamous cell carcinoma. A 77-year-old man with a two-month history of myelodysplastic syndrome was admitted with acute chest pain and shortness of breath. Radiological investigations revealed an anterior mediastinal mass, associated with mediastinal haemorrhage. The mass was excised via a standard median sternotomy and was found to be an infiltrating squamous cell carcinoma, which arose from a multilocular thymic cyst.
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spelling pubmed-27401672009-10-14 Spontaneous mediastinal haemorrhage linked with thymic carcinoma and myelodysplasia: a case report Fernando, Suresh R Van Tornout, Filip Ball, Richard Y Wimperis, Jennie Z Cases J Case report We report an unusual sequence of clinico-pathological manifestations of myelodysplastic syndrome and thymic squamous cell carcinoma. A 77-year-old man with a two-month history of myelodysplastic syndrome was admitted with acute chest pain and shortness of breath. Radiological investigations revealed an anterior mediastinal mass, associated with mediastinal haemorrhage. The mass was excised via a standard median sternotomy and was found to be an infiltrating squamous cell carcinoma, which arose from a multilocular thymic cyst. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2740167/ /pubmed/19830017 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7821 Text en © 2009 Fernando et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Fernando, Suresh R
Van Tornout, Filip
Ball, Richard Y
Wimperis, Jennie Z
Spontaneous mediastinal haemorrhage linked with thymic carcinoma and myelodysplasia: a case report
title Spontaneous mediastinal haemorrhage linked with thymic carcinoma and myelodysplasia: a case report
title_full Spontaneous mediastinal haemorrhage linked with thymic carcinoma and myelodysplasia: a case report
title_fullStr Spontaneous mediastinal haemorrhage linked with thymic carcinoma and myelodysplasia: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous mediastinal haemorrhage linked with thymic carcinoma and myelodysplasia: a case report
title_short Spontaneous mediastinal haemorrhage linked with thymic carcinoma and myelodysplasia: a case report
title_sort spontaneous mediastinal haemorrhage linked with thymic carcinoma and myelodysplasia: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830017
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7821
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