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Successful Pregnancies after the Treatment of a Thymic Carcinoid
The present report describes the case of a woman diagnosed with an adrenocorticotropic hormone- (ACTH-) secreting thymic carcinoid associated with Cushing's syndrome. Treatment consisted of tumour resection and 131-I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) therapy. In spite of her iatrogenic menopausal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532952/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26294990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/802713 |
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author | Tjalma, Wiebren A. A. |
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description | The present report describes the case of a woman diagnosed with an adrenocorticotropic hormone- (ACTH-) secreting thymic carcinoid associated with Cushing's syndrome. Treatment consisted of tumour resection and 131-I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) therapy. In spite of her iatrogenic menopausal state she twice became pregnant and delivered two healthy babies but developed recurrences during both pregnancies. The last recurrence presented as a primary breast cancer. Despite poor prognosis our patient survived for eleven years. To our knowledge this is the first report of successful pregnancy and delivery in a patient with a thymic carcinoid. |
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spelling | pubmed-45329522015-08-20 Successful Pregnancies after the Treatment of a Thymic Carcinoid Tjalma, Wiebren A. A. Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report The present report describes the case of a woman diagnosed with an adrenocorticotropic hormone- (ACTH-) secreting thymic carcinoid associated with Cushing's syndrome. Treatment consisted of tumour resection and 131-I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) therapy. In spite of her iatrogenic menopausal state she twice became pregnant and delivered two healthy babies but developed recurrences during both pregnancies. The last recurrence presented as a primary breast cancer. Despite poor prognosis our patient survived for eleven years. To our knowledge this is the first report of successful pregnancy and delivery in a patient with a thymic carcinoid. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4532952/ /pubmed/26294990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/802713 Text en Copyright © 2015 Wiebren A. A. Tjalma. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Tjalma, Wiebren A. A. Successful Pregnancies after the Treatment of a Thymic Carcinoid |
title | Successful Pregnancies after the Treatment of a Thymic Carcinoid |
title_full | Successful Pregnancies after the Treatment of a Thymic Carcinoid |
title_fullStr | Successful Pregnancies after the Treatment of a Thymic Carcinoid |
title_full_unstemmed | Successful Pregnancies after the Treatment of a Thymic Carcinoid |
title_short | Successful Pregnancies after the Treatment of a Thymic Carcinoid |
title_sort | successful pregnancies after the treatment of a thymic carcinoid |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532952/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26294990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/802713 |
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