A Thymic Hyperplasia Case without Suppressing on Chemical Shift Magnetic Resonance Imaging

A 22-year-old woman with myasthenia gravis (MG) presented with ptosis and mild muscle weakness symptoms for one year. Computed tomography (CT) presented a diffuse bilobulate enlargement gland with a high density of soft tissue. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed the gland with no suppression on...

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Autores principales: Phung, Tuan, Nguyen, Thach, Tran, Dung, Phan, Nga, Nguyen, Hung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5971343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29862111
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7305619
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author Phung, Tuan
Nguyen, Thach
Tran, Dung
Phan, Nga
Nguyen, Hung
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Nguyen, Thach
Tran, Dung
Phan, Nga
Nguyen, Hung
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description A 22-year-old woman with myasthenia gravis (MG) presented with ptosis and mild muscle weakness symptoms for one year. Computed tomography (CT) presented a diffuse bilobulate enlargement gland with a high density of soft tissue. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed the gland with no suppression on the opposed-phase chemical shift. After the thymic tumor diagnosis, she underwent thoracoscopic surgery for tumor resection. The postoperative histopathological finding was thymic lymphoid hyperplasia. This case suggests chemical shift MRI is not enough in distinguishing, and supplementary examination is essential to avoid unnecessary thymic biopsy and surgery.
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spelling pubmed-59713432018-06-03 A Thymic Hyperplasia Case without Suppressing on Chemical Shift Magnetic Resonance Imaging Phung, Tuan Nguyen, Thach Tran, Dung Phan, Nga Nguyen, Hung Case Rep Radiol Case Report A 22-year-old woman with myasthenia gravis (MG) presented with ptosis and mild muscle weakness symptoms for one year. Computed tomography (CT) presented a diffuse bilobulate enlargement gland with a high density of soft tissue. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed the gland with no suppression on the opposed-phase chemical shift. After the thymic tumor diagnosis, she underwent thoracoscopic surgery for tumor resection. The postoperative histopathological finding was thymic lymphoid hyperplasia. This case suggests chemical shift MRI is not enough in distinguishing, and supplementary examination is essential to avoid unnecessary thymic biopsy and surgery. Hindawi 2018-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5971343/ /pubmed/29862111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7305619 Text en Copyright © 2018 Tuan Phung 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.
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Phung, Tuan
Nguyen, Thach
Tran, Dung
Phan, Nga
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A Thymic Hyperplasia Case without Suppressing on Chemical Shift Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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title_full_unstemmed A Thymic Hyperplasia Case without Suppressing on Chemical Shift Magnetic Resonance Imaging
title_short A Thymic Hyperplasia Case without Suppressing on Chemical Shift Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5971343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29862111
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7305619
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