Middle mediastinal thymic carcinoma with cystic findings in radiologic images: a case report

BACKGROUND: Thymic carcinomas are usually detected in the anterior mediastinum. Thymic carcinoma occurring in the middle mediastinum and showing an image of a cyst is extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION: A 64-year-old man with a middle mediastinal tumor detected incidentally by a CT scan was referred....

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Autores principales: Shinohara, Shuichi, Kuroda, Koji, Kuwata, Taiji, Takenaka, Masaru, Oka, Soichi, Chikaishi, Yasuhiro, Hirai, Ayako, Imanishi, Naoko, Tanaka, Fumihiro
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-016-0254-2
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author Shinohara, Shuichi
Kuroda, Koji
Kuwata, Taiji
Takenaka, Masaru
Oka, Soichi
Chikaishi, Yasuhiro
Hirai, Ayako
Imanishi, Naoko
Tanaka, Fumihiro
author_facet Shinohara, Shuichi
Kuroda, Koji
Kuwata, Taiji
Takenaka, Masaru
Oka, Soichi
Chikaishi, Yasuhiro
Hirai, Ayako
Imanishi, Naoko
Tanaka, Fumihiro
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description BACKGROUND: Thymic carcinomas are usually detected in the anterior mediastinum. Thymic carcinoma occurring in the middle mediastinum and showing an image of a cyst is extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION: A 64-year-old man with a middle mediastinal tumor detected incidentally by a CT scan was referred. Chest CT showed an entirely cystic mass in the middle mediastinum between the bilateral brachiocephalic vein and trachea. We resected the tumor completely in the right recurrent nerve because it had invaded the nerve. Immunohistochemical features showed a thymic carcinoma pattern. The final diagnosis was thymic squamous cell carcinoma occurring in the middle mediastinum. CONCLUSION: To our best knowledge, this is the first report of a thymic carcinoma occurring in the middle mediastinum, as demonstrated by histopathological findings with immunohistochemical features.
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spelling pubmed-50993082016-12-02 Middle mediastinal thymic carcinoma with cystic findings in radiologic images: a case report Shinohara, Shuichi Kuroda, Koji Kuwata, Taiji Takenaka, Masaru Oka, Soichi Chikaishi, Yasuhiro Hirai, Ayako Imanishi, Naoko Tanaka, Fumihiro Surg Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Thymic carcinomas are usually detected in the anterior mediastinum. Thymic carcinoma occurring in the middle mediastinum and showing an image of a cyst is extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION: A 64-year-old man with a middle mediastinal tumor detected incidentally by a CT scan was referred. Chest CT showed an entirely cystic mass in the middle mediastinum between the bilateral brachiocephalic vein and trachea. We resected the tumor completely in the right recurrent nerve because it had invaded the nerve. Immunohistochemical features showed a thymic carcinoma pattern. The final diagnosis was thymic squamous cell carcinoma occurring in the middle mediastinum. CONCLUSION: To our best knowledge, this is the first report of a thymic carcinoma occurring in the middle mediastinum, as demonstrated by histopathological findings with immunohistochemical features. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5099308/ /pubmed/27822875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-016-0254-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Shinohara, Shuichi
Kuroda, Koji
Kuwata, Taiji
Takenaka, Masaru
Oka, Soichi
Chikaishi, Yasuhiro
Hirai, Ayako
Imanishi, Naoko
Tanaka, Fumihiro
Middle mediastinal thymic carcinoma with cystic findings in radiologic images: a case report
title Middle mediastinal thymic carcinoma with cystic findings in radiologic images: a case report
title_full Middle mediastinal thymic carcinoma with cystic findings in radiologic images: a case report
title_fullStr Middle mediastinal thymic carcinoma with cystic findings in radiologic images: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Middle mediastinal thymic carcinoma with cystic findings in radiologic images: a case report
title_short Middle mediastinal thymic carcinoma with cystic findings in radiologic images: a case report
title_sort middle mediastinal thymic carcinoma with cystic findings in radiologic images: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-016-0254-2
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