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Colorectal Cancer Metastasis to the Thymus Gland: Rare Presentation of Colorectal Cancer as Anterior Mediastinal Mass
Despite improved screening modalities, 15–25% of newly diagnosed colorectal cancers are metastatic at the time of diagnosis. The vast majority of these cases present as hepatic metastasis; however, 22% present with concomitant extrahepatic disease. The thymus gland is an uncommon site of metastasis...
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2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237732/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28116210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6581965 |
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author | Peters, H. Charles Liu, Xiuli Iqbal, Atif Cunningham, Lisa A. Tan, Sanda A. |
author_facet | Peters, H. Charles Liu, Xiuli Iqbal, Atif Cunningham, Lisa A. Tan, Sanda A. |
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description | Despite improved screening modalities, 15–25% of newly diagnosed colorectal cancers are metastatic at the time of diagnosis. The vast majority of these cases present as hepatic metastasis; however, 22% present with concomitant extrahepatic disease. The thymus gland is an uncommon site of metastasis for any primary malignancy, particularly, colorectal cancer given its vascular and lymphatic drainage. This case report details our experience with a rare case of colorectal cancer metastasis to the thymus gland presenting as a symptomatic mediastinal mass. |
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spelling | pubmed-52377322017-01-23 Colorectal Cancer Metastasis to the Thymus Gland: Rare Presentation of Colorectal Cancer as Anterior Mediastinal Mass Peters, H. Charles Liu, Xiuli Iqbal, Atif Cunningham, Lisa A. Tan, Sanda A. Case Rep Surg Case Report Despite improved screening modalities, 15–25% of newly diagnosed colorectal cancers are metastatic at the time of diagnosis. The vast majority of these cases present as hepatic metastasis; however, 22% present with concomitant extrahepatic disease. The thymus gland is an uncommon site of metastasis for any primary malignancy, particularly, colorectal cancer given its vascular and lymphatic drainage. This case report details our experience with a rare case of colorectal cancer metastasis to the thymus gland presenting as a symptomatic mediastinal mass. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 2017-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5237732/ /pubmed/28116210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6581965 Text en Copyright © 2017 H. Charles Peters et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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 Peters, H. Charles Liu, Xiuli Iqbal, Atif Cunningham, Lisa A. Tan, Sanda A. Colorectal Cancer Metastasis to the Thymus Gland: Rare Presentation of Colorectal Cancer as Anterior Mediastinal Mass |
title | Colorectal Cancer Metastasis to the Thymus Gland: Rare Presentation of Colorectal Cancer as Anterior Mediastinal Mass |
title_full | Colorectal Cancer Metastasis to the Thymus Gland: Rare Presentation of Colorectal Cancer as Anterior Mediastinal Mass |
title_fullStr | Colorectal Cancer Metastasis to the Thymus Gland: Rare Presentation of Colorectal Cancer as Anterior Mediastinal Mass |
title_full_unstemmed | Colorectal Cancer Metastasis to the Thymus Gland: Rare Presentation of Colorectal Cancer as Anterior Mediastinal Mass |
title_short | Colorectal Cancer Metastasis to the Thymus Gland: Rare Presentation of Colorectal Cancer as Anterior Mediastinal Mass |
title_sort | colorectal cancer metastasis to the thymus gland: rare presentation of colorectal cancer as anterior mediastinal mass |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237732/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28116210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6581965 |
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