An intrathoracic mass behind severe immunodeficiency: a case report of Good’s syndrome and large type AB thymoma

A large solitary intrathoracic mass was identified in a patient with concurrent immunodeficiency. The patient was found to have a type AB thymoma and was diagnosed with Good’s syndrome. A case report demonstrates the importance of timely surgical intervention for this rare syndrome.

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Autor principal: Thuraisingam, Amalan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6990100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32015824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz394
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spelling pubmed-69901002020-02-03 An intrathoracic mass behind severe immunodeficiency: a case report of Good’s syndrome and large type AB thymoma Thuraisingam, Amalan J Surg Case Rep Case Report A large solitary intrathoracic mass was identified in a patient with concurrent immunodeficiency. The patient was found to have a type AB thymoma and was diagnosed with Good’s syndrome. A case report demonstrates the importance of timely surgical intervention for this rare syndrome. Oxford University Press 2020-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6990100/ /pubmed/32015824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz394 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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An intrathoracic mass behind severe immunodeficiency: a case report of Good’s syndrome and large type AB thymoma
title An intrathoracic mass behind severe immunodeficiency: a case report of Good’s syndrome and large type AB thymoma
title_full An intrathoracic mass behind severe immunodeficiency: a case report of Good’s syndrome and large type AB thymoma
title_fullStr An intrathoracic mass behind severe immunodeficiency: a case report of Good’s syndrome and large type AB thymoma
title_full_unstemmed An intrathoracic mass behind severe immunodeficiency: a case report of Good’s syndrome and large type AB thymoma
title_short An intrathoracic mass behind severe immunodeficiency: a case report of Good’s syndrome and large type AB thymoma
title_sort intrathoracic mass behind severe immunodeficiency: a case report of good’s syndrome and large type ab thymoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6990100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32015824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz394
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