Rare Case of Spinal Cord Compression as Initial Presentation of Thymic Carcinoma

Thymic carcinomas are rare aggressive cancers with limited clinical trial data. Its usual treatment is surgical resection with variable response to chemotherapy and radiation. It usually presents as anterior mediastinal mass with late sequela of metastases to the lymph nodes, pleura and bones. We pr...

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Autores principales: Singh, Prabhsimranjot, Sinha, Ankur, Malhotra, Sonali, Chandra, Abhinav Binod, Solomon, William, Huang, Yiwu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5650009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147447
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon1053w
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author Singh, Prabhsimranjot
Sinha, Ankur
Malhotra, Sonali
Chandra, Abhinav Binod
Solomon, William
Huang, Yiwu
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Sinha, Ankur
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Chandra, Abhinav Binod
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description Thymic carcinomas are rare aggressive cancers with limited clinical trial data. Its usual treatment is surgical resection with variable response to chemotherapy and radiation. It usually presents as anterior mediastinal mass with late sequela of metastases to the lymph nodes, pleura and bones. We present of thymic carcinoma with a rare initial presentation of vertebral metastases causing spinal cord compression.
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spelling pubmed-56500092017-11-16 Rare Case of Spinal Cord Compression as Initial Presentation of Thymic Carcinoma Singh, Prabhsimranjot Sinha, Ankur Malhotra, Sonali Chandra, Abhinav Binod Solomon, William Huang, Yiwu World J Oncol Case Report Thymic carcinomas are rare aggressive cancers with limited clinical trial data. Its usual treatment is surgical resection with variable response to chemotherapy and radiation. It usually presents as anterior mediastinal mass with late sequela of metastases to the lymph nodes, pleura and bones. We present of thymic carcinoma with a rare initial presentation of vertebral metastases causing spinal cord compression. Elmer Press 2017-08 2017-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5650009/ /pubmed/29147447 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon1053w Text en Copyright 2017, Singh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5650009/
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