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
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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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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author Ibuki, Yuta
Okami, Jiro
Tomita, Yasuhiko
Fujiwara, Ayako
Kanou, Takashi
Tokunaga, Toshiteru
Higashiyama, Masahiko
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description 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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spelling pubmed-40193602014-05-14 Primary papillary carcinoma of the thymus with invasion into subcutaneous tissue through the sternum Ibuki, Yuta Okami, Jiro Tomita, Yasuhiko Fujiwara, Ayako Kanou, Takashi Tokunaga, Toshiteru Higashiyama, Masahiko J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report 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. BioMed Central 2014-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4019360/ /pubmed/24885502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-9-77 Text en Copyright © 2014 Ibuki et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ibuki, Yuta
Okami, Jiro
Tomita, Yasuhiko
Fujiwara, Ayako
Kanou, Takashi
Tokunaga, Toshiteru
Higashiyama, Masahiko
Primary papillary carcinoma of the thymus with invasion into subcutaneous tissue through the sternum
title Primary papillary carcinoma of the thymus with invasion into subcutaneous tissue through the sternum
title_full Primary papillary carcinoma of the thymus with invasion into subcutaneous tissue through the sternum
title_fullStr Primary papillary carcinoma of the thymus with invasion into subcutaneous tissue through the sternum
title_full_unstemmed Primary papillary carcinoma of the thymus with invasion into subcutaneous tissue through the sternum
title_short Primary papillary carcinoma of the thymus with invasion into subcutaneous tissue through the sternum
title_sort primary papillary carcinoma of the thymus with invasion into subcutaneous tissue through the sternum
topic Case Report
url 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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