Cardiac tamponade from a giant thymoma: case report

Thymoma, the most common neoplasm of the anterior mediastinum especially in adults, accounts for 20-25% of all mediastinal tumors and 50% of anterior mediastinal masses. These tumors are routinely asymptomatic for prolonged periods of time. Pericardial tamponade is a very rare initial manifestation...

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Autores principales: Fazlıoğulları, Osman, Atalan, Nazan, Gürer, Onur, Akgün, Serdar, Arsan, Sinan
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/PMC3298781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22309880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-14
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author Fazlıoğulları, Osman
Atalan, Nazan
Gürer, Onur
Akgün, Serdar
Arsan, Sinan
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Atalan, Nazan
Gürer, Onur
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description Thymoma, the most common neoplasm of the anterior mediastinum especially in adults, accounts for 20-25% of all mediastinal tumors and 50% of anterior mediastinal masses. These tumors are routinely asymptomatic for prolonged periods of time. Pericardial tamponade is a very rare initial manifestation of a thymoma. This report presents a patient who had hemorrhagic pericardial tamponade that likely resulted from the largest symptomatic mixed type (type AB) thymoma described in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-32987812012-03-12 Cardiac tamponade from a giant thymoma: case report Fazlıoğulları, Osman Atalan, Nazan Gürer, Onur Akgün, Serdar Arsan, Sinan J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Thymoma, the most common neoplasm of the anterior mediastinum especially in adults, accounts for 20-25% of all mediastinal tumors and 50% of anterior mediastinal masses. These tumors are routinely asymptomatic for prolonged periods of time. Pericardial tamponade is a very rare initial manifestation of a thymoma. This report presents a patient who had hemorrhagic pericardial tamponade that likely resulted from the largest symptomatic mixed type (type AB) thymoma described in the literature. BioMed Central 2012-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3298781/ /pubmed/22309880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-14 Text en Copyright ©2012 Fazlıoğulları 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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Fazlıoğulları, Osman
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Cardiac tamponade from a giant thymoma: case report
title Cardiac tamponade from a giant thymoma: case report
title_full Cardiac tamponade from a giant thymoma: case report
title_fullStr Cardiac tamponade from a giant thymoma: case report
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title_short Cardiac tamponade from a giant thymoma: case report
title_sort cardiac tamponade from a giant thymoma: case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22309880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-14
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