Cavernous sinus syndrome caused by a metastasis of a thymic carcinoid tumor

Thymic carcinoid tumors belong to the group of mediastinal tumors, but are quite rare and usually carry a very poor prognosis. This report illustrates a case in which a thymic carcinoid tumor that had led to cavernous sinus syndrome was treated successfully. This is the first case report of a thymic...

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Autores principales: Onen, Ahmet, Sanli, Aydin, Karapolat, Sami, Hayretdag, Ahu, Acikel, Unal
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Publicado: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21289952
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author Onen, Ahmet
Sanli, Aydin
Karapolat, Sami
Hayretdag, Ahu
Acikel, Unal
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description Thymic carcinoid tumors belong to the group of mediastinal tumors, but are quite rare and usually carry a very poor prognosis. This report illustrates a case in which a thymic carcinoid tumor that had led to cavernous sinus syndrome was treated successfully. This is the first case report of a thymic carcinoid to metastasize to the cavernous sinus.
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spelling pubmed-30113412011-02-02 Cavernous sinus syndrome caused by a metastasis of a thymic carcinoid tumor Onen, Ahmet Sanli, Aydin Karapolat, Sami Hayretdag, Ahu Acikel, Unal Thorac Surg Sci Article Thymic carcinoid tumors belong to the group of mediastinal tumors, but are quite rare and usually carry a very poor prognosis. This report illustrates a case in which a thymic carcinoid tumor that had led to cavernous sinus syndrome was treated successfully. This is the first case report of a thymic carcinoid to metastasize to the cavernous sinus. German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2006-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3011341/ /pubmed/21289952 Text en Copyright © 2006 Onen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en). You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Onen, Ahmet
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Hayretdag, Ahu
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Cavernous sinus syndrome caused by a metastasis of a thymic carcinoid tumor
title Cavernous sinus syndrome caused by a metastasis of a thymic carcinoid tumor
title_full Cavernous sinus syndrome caused by a metastasis of a thymic carcinoid tumor
title_fullStr Cavernous sinus syndrome caused by a metastasis of a thymic carcinoid tumor
title_full_unstemmed Cavernous sinus syndrome caused by a metastasis of a thymic carcinoid tumor
title_short Cavernous sinus syndrome caused by a metastasis of a thymic carcinoid tumor
title_sort cavernous sinus syndrome caused by a metastasis of a thymic carcinoid tumor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21289952
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