AB thymoma revealed by a huge intraparenchymal lung mass: a case report

Thymoma is an epithelial neoplasm of the thymus, which commonly lies in the anterior mediastinum. Unusually it can be found in other locations as well. Ectopic thymoma rarely presents as an intrathoracic tumor. We report a case of ectopic thymoma presenting as a giant right intrathoracic tumor, the...

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Autores principales: Es-sabbahi, Btissame, Serraj, Mounia, Alami, Baderdine, Elbiaze, Mohammed, Benjelloun, Mohammed Chakib, Amara, Bouchra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8106782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33995795
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.189.28041
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author Es-sabbahi, Btissame
Serraj, Mounia
Alami, Baderdine
Elbiaze, Mohammed
Benjelloun, Mohammed Chakib
Amara, Bouchra
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description Thymoma is an epithelial neoplasm of the thymus, which commonly lies in the anterior mediastinum. Unusually it can be found in other locations as well. Ectopic thymoma rarely presents as an intrathoracic tumor. We report a case of ectopic thymoma presenting as a giant right intrathoracic tumor, the patient was 51-year-old, and who was presented with heaviness in chest and breathlessness. Detailed investigation including chest computed tomography scan revealed a well-defined large solid tumor in the right thoracic cavity, in this case, immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated a thymome AB. The tumor was metastatic to the lung. Patient received a neoadjuvant chemotherapy, with favorable evolution.
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spelling pubmed-81067822021-05-13 AB thymoma revealed by a huge intraparenchymal lung mass: a case report Es-sabbahi, Btissame Serraj, Mounia Alami, Baderdine Elbiaze, Mohammed Benjelloun, Mohammed Chakib Amara, Bouchra Pan Afr Med J Case Report Thymoma is an epithelial neoplasm of the thymus, which commonly lies in the anterior mediastinum. Unusually it can be found in other locations as well. Ectopic thymoma rarely presents as an intrathoracic tumor. We report a case of ectopic thymoma presenting as a giant right intrathoracic tumor, the patient was 51-year-old, and who was presented with heaviness in chest and breathlessness. Detailed investigation including chest computed tomography scan revealed a well-defined large solid tumor in the right thoracic cavity, in this case, immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated a thymome AB. The tumor was metastatic to the lung. Patient received a neoadjuvant chemotherapy, with favorable evolution. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8106782/ /pubmed/33995795 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.189.28041 Text en Copyright: Btissame Es-sabbahi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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AB thymoma revealed by a huge intraparenchymal lung mass: a case report
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title_short AB thymoma revealed by a huge intraparenchymal lung mass: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8106782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33995795
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.189.28041
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