Massive thymic hyperplasia in a 15‐month‐old boy: Case report and literature review

A surgical approach is the choice in young infants with MTH, who are furthest from the time of physiological involution of the thymus, and when the thymus achieves the largest relative size, a surgical approach is the choice. Steroid therapy has been shown to be ineffective (4, 9, 16, 18‐20). No sur...

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Autores principales: Tadiotto, Elisa, Clemente, Maria, Pecoraro, Luca, Piacentini, Giorgio, Degani, Daniela, Pietrobelli, Angelo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30656002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1896
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author Tadiotto, Elisa
Clemente, Maria
Pecoraro, Luca
Piacentini, Giorgio
Degani, Daniela
Pietrobelli, Angelo
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spelling pubmed-63330692019-01-17 Massive thymic hyperplasia in a 15‐month‐old boy: Case report and literature review Tadiotto, Elisa Clemente, Maria Pecoraro, Luca Piacentini, Giorgio Degani, Daniela Pietrobelli, Angelo Clin Case Rep Case Reports A surgical approach is the choice in young infants with MTH, who are furthest from the time of physiological involution of the thymus, and when the thymus achieves the largest relative size, a surgical approach is the choice. Steroid therapy has been shown to be ineffective (4, 9, 16, 18‐20). No surgical complications have been reported, and the outcome is excellent. Recurrence has been seen in only one case. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6333069/ /pubmed/30656002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1896 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Massive thymic hyperplasia in a 15‐month‐old boy: Case report and literature review
title Massive thymic hyperplasia in a 15‐month‐old boy: Case report and literature review
title_full Massive thymic hyperplasia in a 15‐month‐old boy: Case report and literature review
title_fullStr Massive thymic hyperplasia in a 15‐month‐old boy: Case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Massive thymic hyperplasia in a 15‐month‐old boy: Case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30656002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1896
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