Case Report: Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in the Wall of a Thymic Cyst

Thymic cysts are rare lesions (1–5% of all mediastinal masses) and, most of the times, are incidental findings. The coexistence of a lymphoma and a thymic cyst is rare. In the case reported herein, microscopic foci of a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma were identified in the wall of a resected thymic c...

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Autores principales: Agrafiotis, Apostolos C., Paralikas, Ioannis, Giakoumakis, Kanellos, Moraitis, Sotirios D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
Materias:
Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8847264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35187056
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2022.788047
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author Agrafiotis, Apostolos C.
Paralikas, Ioannis
Giakoumakis, Kanellos
Moraitis, Sotirios D.
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description Thymic cysts are rare lesions (1–5% of all mediastinal masses) and, most of the times, are incidental findings. The coexistence of a lymphoma and a thymic cyst is rare. In the case reported herein, microscopic foci of a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma were identified in the wall of a resected thymic cyst. This case report adds to the current knowledge of this rare entity and highlights the necessity of early surgical resection of mediastinal cysts over watchful waiting.
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spelling pubmed-88472642022-02-17 Case Report: Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in the Wall of a Thymic Cyst Agrafiotis, Apostolos C. Paralikas, Ioannis Giakoumakis, Kanellos Moraitis, Sotirios D. Front Surg Surgery Thymic cysts are rare lesions (1–5% of all mediastinal masses) and, most of the times, are incidental findings. The coexistence of a lymphoma and a thymic cyst is rare. In the case reported herein, microscopic foci of a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma were identified in the wall of a resected thymic cyst. This case report adds to the current knowledge of this rare entity and highlights the necessity of early surgical resection of mediastinal cysts over watchful waiting. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8847264/ /pubmed/35187056 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2022.788047 Text en Copyright © 2022 Agrafiotis, Paralikas, Giakoumakis and Moraitis. 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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Agrafiotis, Apostolos C.
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Case Report: Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in the Wall of a Thymic Cyst
title Case Report: Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in the Wall of a Thymic Cyst
title_full Case Report: Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in the Wall of a Thymic Cyst
title_fullStr Case Report: Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in the Wall of a Thymic Cyst
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title_short Case Report: Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in the Wall of a Thymic Cyst
title_sort case report: diffuse large b-cell lymphoma in the wall of a thymic cyst
topic Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8847264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35187056
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2022.788047
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