Malignant thymoma
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Thymoma: benign appearance, malignant potential.
Thymoma is a rare tumor with a largely indolent growth pattern. It does, however, have malignant potential as a result of its ability to invade locally and metastasize regionally. Often associated with a number of immune- and nonimmune-mediated paraneoplastic syndromes, patient outcomes are directly related to stage of disease and the ability to achieve a complete surgical resection. Surgery is...
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Thymomas are rare, slow-growing neoplasms that are considered to be malignant because of their potential invasiveness. The most widely used staging system is that of Masaoka and colleagues, which takes into account the extent of clinical and histopathologically determined disease involvement. However, recent data suggest that the staging system of the French Study Group on Thymic Tumors (GETT s...
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autoimmune disorders, most notably myasthenia gravis (MG) which is seen in up to 40% of cases.1,2 There are also a number of other less common autoimmune disorders associated with thymoma, including hyperexcitability syndromes,3 myositis,1 encephalitis,4 autonomic dysfunction,5 and lupus.6 In 2004 Vernino and Lennon7 reported autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in two patients from the...
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A 43-year-old female developed diplopia and drop of her eyelids in November 2003. Myasthenia was diagnosed and the investigation revealed a large mass of 5.5 cm in the upper anterior mediastinum and deposits in lungs and pleura.
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Thymomas and thymic carcinomas, which are rare epithelial tumors arising from the thymus gland, are the most common tumors of the anterior mediastinum. Surgery is the principal treatment and is curative in early stage disease. Radiation therapy, either alone or in combination with chemotherapy, may be an option both in not completely and completely resected disease. Chemotherapy is offered to p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19920715)70:2<443::aid-cncr2820700212>3.0.co;2-t