Cervical extension of the thymus mimicking metastatic recurrence of Ewing sarcoma on PET/CT

Occasionally the thymus may extend in the neck, from its normal location in the anterior mediastinum. The cervical extension, especially when the native thymus is hyperplastic, can mimic a mass. We describe the detection of cervical extension of the hyperplastic thymus, presenting as a suspicious re...

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Autores principales: Dua, Sumeet G, Purandare, Nilendu C, Shah, Sneha, Maitra, Riddhika, Rangarajan, Venkatesh
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21712916
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.78259
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author Dua, Sumeet G
Purandare, Nilendu C
Shah, Sneha
Maitra, Riddhika
Rangarajan, Venkatesh
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description Occasionally the thymus may extend in the neck, from its normal location in the anterior mediastinum. The cervical extension, especially when the native thymus is hyperplastic, can mimic a mass. We describe the detection of cervical extension of the hyperplastic thymus, presenting as a suspicious recurrent soft tissue mass in the neck in a patient with Ewing’s sarcoma.
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spelling pubmed-31098282011-06-27 Cervical extension of the thymus mimicking metastatic recurrence of Ewing sarcoma on PET/CT Dua, Sumeet G Purandare, Nilendu C Shah, Sneha Maitra, Riddhika Rangarajan, Venkatesh Indian J Nucl Med Case Report Occasionally the thymus may extend in the neck, from its normal location in the anterior mediastinum. The cervical extension, especially when the native thymus is hyperplastic, can mimic a mass. We describe the detection of cervical extension of the hyperplastic thymus, presenting as a suspicious recurrent soft tissue mass in the neck in a patient with Ewing’s sarcoma. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3109828/ /pubmed/21712916 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.78259 Text en © Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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Dua, Sumeet G
Purandare, Nilendu C
Shah, Sneha
Maitra, Riddhika
Rangarajan, Venkatesh
Cervical extension of the thymus mimicking metastatic recurrence of Ewing sarcoma on PET/CT
title Cervical extension of the thymus mimicking metastatic recurrence of Ewing sarcoma on PET/CT
title_full Cervical extension of the thymus mimicking metastatic recurrence of Ewing sarcoma on PET/CT
title_fullStr Cervical extension of the thymus mimicking metastatic recurrence of Ewing sarcoma on PET/CT
title_full_unstemmed Cervical extension of the thymus mimicking metastatic recurrence of Ewing sarcoma on PET/CT
title_short Cervical extension of the thymus mimicking metastatic recurrence of Ewing sarcoma on PET/CT
title_sort cervical extension of the thymus mimicking metastatic recurrence of ewing sarcoma on pet/ct
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21712916
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.78259
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