Ectopic cervical thymoma in a patient with Myasthenia gravis

Ectopic cervical thymoma is rare and is often misdiagnosed as a thyroid tumor or other malignancy. Ectopic thymic tissue can be found along the entire thymic descent path during embryogenesis. However, a thymoma arising from such ectopic thymic tissue is extremely rare. Herein we report a patient wi...

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Autores principales: Wu, Ti Hei, Jin, Jong Shiaw, Huang, Tsai Wang, Chang, Hung, Lee, Shih Chun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21733179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-89
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author Wu, Ti Hei
Jin, Jong Shiaw
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Chang, Hung
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description Ectopic cervical thymoma is rare and is often misdiagnosed as a thyroid tumor or other malignancy. Ectopic thymic tissue can be found along the entire thymic descent path during embryogenesis. However, a thymoma arising from such ectopic thymic tissue is extremely rare. Herein we report a patient with ectopic cervical thymoma and myasthenia gravis (MG) and discuss the management.
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spelling pubmed-31495752011-08-04 Ectopic cervical thymoma in a patient with Myasthenia gravis Wu, Ti Hei Jin, Jong Shiaw Huang, Tsai Wang Chang, Hung Lee, Shih Chun J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Ectopic cervical thymoma is rare and is often misdiagnosed as a thyroid tumor or other malignancy. Ectopic thymic tissue can be found along the entire thymic descent path during embryogenesis. However, a thymoma arising from such ectopic thymic tissue is extremely rare. Herein we report a patient with ectopic cervical thymoma and myasthenia gravis (MG) and discuss the management. BioMed Central 2011-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3149575/ /pubmed/21733179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-89 Text en Copyright ©2011 Wu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ectopic cervical thymoma in a patient with Myasthenia gravis
title Ectopic cervical thymoma in a patient with Myasthenia gravis
title_full Ectopic cervical thymoma in a patient with Myasthenia gravis
title_fullStr Ectopic cervical thymoma in a patient with Myasthenia gravis
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title_short Ectopic cervical thymoma in a patient with Myasthenia gravis
title_sort ectopic cervical thymoma in a patient with myasthenia gravis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149575/
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