Thymic hyperplasia in a patient with Grave's disease

Hyperplastic changes of the thymus may be found in patients with Graves' disease. However, this rarely presents as an anterior mediastinal mass, particularly among adults. In this report, we describe a 46-year old woman with Graves' disease and thymic hyperplasia.

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Autores principales: Hamzaoui, Amira A, Klii, Rim R, Salem, Randa R, Kochtali, Ines I, Golli, Mondher M, Mahjoub, Silvia S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22321290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-5-6
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author Hamzaoui, Amira A
Klii, Rim R
Salem, Randa R
Kochtali, Ines I
Golli, Mondher M
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description Hyperplastic changes of the thymus may be found in patients with Graves' disease. However, this rarely presents as an anterior mediastinal mass, particularly among adults. In this report, we describe a 46-year old woman with Graves' disease and thymic hyperplasia.
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spelling pubmed-32965852012-03-08 Thymic hyperplasia in a patient with Grave's disease Hamzaoui, Amira A Klii, Rim R Salem, Randa R Kochtali, Ines I Golli, Mondher M Mahjoub, Silvia S Int Arch Med Case Report Hyperplastic changes of the thymus may be found in patients with Graves' disease. However, this rarely presents as an anterior mediastinal mass, particularly among adults. In this report, we describe a 46-year old woman with Graves' disease and thymic hyperplasia. BioMed Central 2012-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3296585/ /pubmed/22321290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-5-6 Text en Copyright ©2012 Hamzaoui 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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Hamzaoui, Amira A
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Thymic hyperplasia in a patient with Grave's disease
title Thymic hyperplasia in a patient with Grave's disease
title_full Thymic hyperplasia in a patient with Grave's disease
title_fullStr Thymic hyperplasia in a patient with Grave's disease
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title_short Thymic hyperplasia in a patient with Grave's disease
title_sort thymic hyperplasia in a patient with grave's disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22321290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-5-6
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