Imaging Evaluation of Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma

Imaging is integral in the management of patients with thymoma and thymic carcinoma. At initial diagnosis and staging, imaging provides the clinical extent of local invasion as well as distant metastases to stratify patients for therapy and to determine prognosis. Following various modalities of the...

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Autores principales: Strange, Chad D., Ahuja, Jitesh, Shroff, Girish S., Truong, Mylene T., Marom, Edith M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8762255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35047412
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.810419
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description Imaging is integral in the management of patients with thymoma and thymic carcinoma. At initial diagnosis and staging, imaging provides the clinical extent of local invasion as well as distant metastases to stratify patients for therapy and to determine prognosis. Following various modalities of therapy, imaging serves to assess treatment response and detect recurrent disease. While imaging findings overlap, a variety of CT, MRI, and PET/CT characteristics can help differentiate thymoma and thymic carcinoma, with new CT and MRI techniques currently under evaluation showing potential.
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spelling pubmed-87622552022-01-18 Imaging Evaluation of Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma Strange, Chad D. Ahuja, Jitesh Shroff, Girish S. Truong, Mylene T. Marom, Edith M. Front Oncol Oncology Imaging is integral in the management of patients with thymoma and thymic carcinoma. At initial diagnosis and staging, imaging provides the clinical extent of local invasion as well as distant metastases to stratify patients for therapy and to determine prognosis. Following various modalities of therapy, imaging serves to assess treatment response and detect recurrent disease. While imaging findings overlap, a variety of CT, MRI, and PET/CT characteristics can help differentiate thymoma and thymic carcinoma, with new CT and MRI techniques currently under evaluation showing potential. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8762255/ /pubmed/35047412 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.810419 Text en Copyright © 2022 Strange, Ahuja, Shroff, Truong and Marom https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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