Primary papillary carcinoma of the thymus with invasion into subcutaneous tissue through the sternum

Thymic carcinoma is a rare malignant neoplasm. We present a Japanese case of papillary carcinoma of thymus in a 64-year-old man that invaded into subcutaneous tissue penetrating the sternum. We describe the clinical and pathologic features of this extremely rare thymic epithelial tumor, with disease...

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Autores principales: Ibuki, Yuta, Okami, Jiro, Tomita, Yasuhiko, Fujiwara, Ayako, Kanou, Takashi, Tokunaga, Toshiteru, Higashiyama, Masahiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24885502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-9-77
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Sumario:Thymic carcinoma is a rare malignant neoplasm. We present a Japanese case of papillary carcinoma of thymus in a 64-year-old man that invaded into subcutaneous tissue penetrating the sternum. We describe the clinical and pathologic features of this extremely rare thymic epithelial tumor, with disease-free survival at three years of follow-up.

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