Cystic thymoma: diagnosis by cross-sectional imaging
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Cystic thymoma: diagnosis by cross-sectional imaging.
Thymomas are the most common primary tumours of the anterior mediastinum in adults, and are composed of a mixture of lymphocytes and epithelial cells in varying proportions, with scattered cystic regions of various size seen in 40% of thymomas pathologically (1). However, those that resulted in almost complete cystic transformation have been reported rarely (24). The present case report describ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/s0954-6111(96)90023-2