Spontaneous rupture of thymoma

We report a case of patient who presented to the hospital due to shoulder pain and was later diagnosed with ruptured thymoma. Shortly after being admitted to the hospital for the work up patient developed respiratory distress and underwent emergent endotracheal intubation. CT scan of the chest showe...

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Autores principales: Sinyagovskiy, Pavel, Abdalla, Mohammed, Raja, Ahmad, Abdelghani, Amro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6260445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30533378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.11.008
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author Sinyagovskiy, Pavel
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description We report a case of patient who presented to the hospital due to shoulder pain and was later diagnosed with ruptured thymoma. Shortly after being admitted to the hospital for the work up patient developed respiratory distress and underwent emergent endotracheal intubation. CT scan of the chest showed anterior mediastinal mass with associated right sided hemothorax. He subsequently underwent medial sternotomy with resection of the mass which turned out to be thymoma.
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spelling pubmed-62604452018-12-07 Spontaneous rupture of thymoma Sinyagovskiy, Pavel Abdalla, Mohammed Raja, Ahmad Abdelghani, Amro Respir Med Case Rep Case Report We report a case of patient who presented to the hospital due to shoulder pain and was later diagnosed with ruptured thymoma. Shortly after being admitted to the hospital for the work up patient developed respiratory distress and underwent emergent endotracheal intubation. CT scan of the chest showed anterior mediastinal mass with associated right sided hemothorax. He subsequently underwent medial sternotomy with resection of the mass which turned out to be thymoma. Elsevier 2018-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6260445/ /pubmed/30533378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.11.008 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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