Pulmonary cytopathology of a thymic carcinoma.

Cytopathology of pulmonary disease.

Cushing syndrome secondary to thymic carcinoid synchronous with tuberculous lymphadenitis and pulmonary tuberculosis: a case

 Abstract Thymic carcinoid is an uncommon neoplasm that can present with Cushing syndrome. We report a 39-year old woman with symptoms of Cushing syndrome secondary to thymic carcinoid and synchronous with tuberculous lymphadenitis and pulmonary tuberculosis. 

Well-differentiated thymic carcinoma: is it thymic carcinoma or not?

We read the article titled “Thymic Carcinoma: Current Staging Does Not Predict Prognosis” by Blumberg and associates of Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998;115:303-9). Thymic carcinomas in this article consisted of type II malignant thymoma 1 and well-differentiated thymic carcinoma. 2 Our Nagoya City University series of thymic carcinoma consisted of 19 patients treate...

A Rare Case of Thymic Carcinoma

Thymic carcinomas are unusual tumors of the thymus gland. Basaloid carcinoma, an unusal epithelioid varient of a thymic carcinoma, is a rare histopathological subtype, and is not well charecterized in the literature. We present the anatomical and histogical features of a basoloid thymic carcinoma, and discuss current diagnosis and imaging strategies, as well as the operative and oncologic care ...

Thymic Squamous Cell Carcinoma

We agree. \Ve used a figure from Table 6 (If the article by Lemeshow et al, which was for a restricted set (If patients. The correct overall classification from the study was 84.9 percent, achieved with the patients frolm a single holspital as compared with a correct classificatioln (If 88. 1 percent with APACHE III on a 40hospital data base. We emphasize, however, that because ofthe bias inher...