Ectopic Middle Mediastinal Thymoma: A Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature
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We report a case of ectopic middle mediastinal thymoma in an asymptomatic 50-year-old woman.Chest X-ray, CT, MRI and FDG-PET/CT examinations were performed preoperatively. The tumor was removed by video-assisted thoracic surgery, and the pathological diagnosis was type B3 thymoma of the World Health Organization classification and stage II thymoma of the Masaoka clinical staging system.Postoperatively, she received adjuvant radiotherapy of 50 Gy. Ectopic middle mediastinal thymomas are extremely rare with only nine previous case reports. This is the first case of type B3 ectopic middle mediastinal thymoma. Imaging features of our ectopic middle mediastinal thymoma was similar to the usual thymomas in the antero-superior mediastinum except for its very rare location.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012