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Thymoma and thymic carcinoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst: a clinicopathologic analysis of 18 cases
BACKGROUND: Multilocular thymic cysts (MTCs) associated with thymomas or thymic carcinomas (TCs) are rare and may be misdiagnosed as other benign cystic lesions. METHODS: We retrospectively analysed 18 cases of thymomas or TCs associated with MTCs, which were retrieved from 309 consecutive patients...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29945642 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-018-0719-7 |
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author | Shen, Xuxia Jin, Yan Shen, Lei Sun, Yihua Chen, Haiquan Li, Yuan |
author_facet | Shen, Xuxia Jin, Yan Shen, Lei Sun, Yihua Chen, Haiquan Li, Yuan |
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description | BACKGROUND: Multilocular thymic cysts (MTCs) associated with thymomas or thymic carcinomas (TCs) are rare and may be misdiagnosed as other benign cystic lesions. METHODS: We retrospectively analysed 18 cases of thymomas or TCs associated with MTCs, which were retrieved from 309 consecutive patients with thymomas or TCs in the Chinese population, emphasizing clinicopathologic characteristics, immunophenotypes and the prognostic impact. RESULTS: A total of 14 tumours were described as cystic or solid-cystic masses, and the other 4 tumours were described as solid masses. Histologically, 2 atypical type A, 2 type AB, 1 type B1, 8 type B2, 1 type B3, 1 microscopic thymoma (type A), 2 squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) and 1 lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELC) were classified. Prominent multilocular cystic areas with chronic inflammation were observed. The follow-up ranged from 2 to 79 months. Sixteen patients survived without any evidence of recurrence after complete resection. CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that thymomas or TCs associated with MTCs are rare in the Chinese population and have a better clinical behaviour than thymomas or TCs without MTCs. Our data also expand the histologic spectrum of thymomas or TCs accompanied by MTC. To our knowledge, this is the first report of atypical type A thymoma and LELC associated with MTCs. |
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spelling | pubmed-60204402018-07-06 Thymoma and thymic carcinoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst: a clinicopathologic analysis of 18 cases Shen, Xuxia Jin, Yan Shen, Lei Sun, Yihua Chen, Haiquan Li, Yuan Diagn Pathol Research BACKGROUND: Multilocular thymic cysts (MTCs) associated with thymomas or thymic carcinomas (TCs) are rare and may be misdiagnosed as other benign cystic lesions. METHODS: We retrospectively analysed 18 cases of thymomas or TCs associated with MTCs, which were retrieved from 309 consecutive patients with thymomas or TCs in the Chinese population, emphasizing clinicopathologic characteristics, immunophenotypes and the prognostic impact. RESULTS: A total of 14 tumours were described as cystic or solid-cystic masses, and the other 4 tumours were described as solid masses. Histologically, 2 atypical type A, 2 type AB, 1 type B1, 8 type B2, 1 type B3, 1 microscopic thymoma (type A), 2 squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) and 1 lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELC) were classified. Prominent multilocular cystic areas with chronic inflammation were observed. The follow-up ranged from 2 to 79 months. Sixteen patients survived without any evidence of recurrence after complete resection. CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that thymomas or TCs associated with MTCs are rare in the Chinese population and have a better clinical behaviour than thymomas or TCs without MTCs. Our data also expand the histologic spectrum of thymomas or TCs accompanied by MTC. To our knowledge, this is the first report of atypical type A thymoma and LELC associated with MTCs. BioMed Central 2018-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6020440/ /pubmed/29945642 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-018-0719-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 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. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Shen, Xuxia Jin, Yan Shen, Lei Sun, Yihua Chen, Haiquan Li, Yuan Thymoma and thymic carcinoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst: a clinicopathologic analysis of 18 cases |
title | Thymoma and thymic carcinoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst: a clinicopathologic analysis of 18 cases |
title_full | Thymoma and thymic carcinoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst: a clinicopathologic analysis of 18 cases |
title_fullStr | Thymoma and thymic carcinoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst: a clinicopathologic analysis of 18 cases |
title_full_unstemmed | Thymoma and thymic carcinoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst: a clinicopathologic analysis of 18 cases |
title_short | Thymoma and thymic carcinoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst: a clinicopathologic analysis of 18 cases |
title_sort | thymoma and thymic carcinoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst: a clinicopathologic analysis of 18 cases |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29945642 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-018-0719-7 |
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