Posterior Mediastinal Thymus: Case Report and Literature Review

BACKGROUND: The incidence of aberrant thymus in the posterior mediastinum is very uncommon. It is difficult to exclude malignancy before surgical procedure. CASE PRESENTATION: In a six-month-old male coughing for two weeks prior to admission a posterior mediastinal mass was found incidentally by che...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Lihua, Sun, Baiping, Zheng, Yulong, Du, Lizhong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3446191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056822
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description BACKGROUND: The incidence of aberrant thymus in the posterior mediastinum is very uncommon. It is difficult to exclude malignancy before surgical procedure. CASE PRESENTATION: In a six-month-old male coughing for two weeks prior to admission a posterior mediastinal mass was found incidentally by chest roentgenogram. Thoracotomy was performed. Histologic study revealed normal thymic tissue. CONCLUSION: When a mass located in the posterior mediastinum, ectopic thymus should be included in differential diagnosis. Imaging techniques may spare thoracotomy. Ectopic thymus has a benign clinical course, and surgical resection is not recommended.
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spelling pubmed-34461912012-10-09 Posterior Mediastinal Thymus: Case Report and Literature Review Jiang, Lihua Sun, Baiping Zheng, Yulong Du, Lizhong Iran J Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: The incidence of aberrant thymus in the posterior mediastinum is very uncommon. It is difficult to exclude malignancy before surgical procedure. CASE PRESENTATION: In a six-month-old male coughing for two weeks prior to admission a posterior mediastinal mass was found incidentally by chest roentgenogram. Thoracotomy was performed. Histologic study revealed normal thymic tissue. CONCLUSION: When a mass located in the posterior mediastinum, ectopic thymus should be included in differential diagnosis. Imaging techniques may spare thoracotomy. Ectopic thymus has a benign clinical course, and surgical resection is not recommended. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3446191/ /pubmed/23056822 Text en © 2011 Iranian Journal of Pediatrics & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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