thymoma with pancytopenia: a case report and review of the literature

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m. aghajanzadeh yazda building, sadra st. golsar, rasht, iran

f. moghadam manesh department of thoracic surgery, razi hospital, gilan university of medical sciences, rasht, iranسازمان اصلی تایید شده: دانشگاه گیلان (guilan university)سازمان های دیگر: razi hospital

t. fakheri department of hematology, razi hospital, gilan university of medical sciences, rasht, iranسازمان اصلی تایید شده: دانشگاه گیلان (guilan university)سازمان های دیگر: razi hospital

s. hoda department of pathology, razi hospital, gilan university of medical sciences, rasht, iranسازمان اصلی تایید شده: دانشگاه گیلان (guilan university)سازمان های دیگر: razi hospital

abstract

although the most common hematological disturbance in thymoma is pure red cell aplasia, pancytopenia is a very rare paraneoplastic syndrome in this disorder. we only found one case in literature reviews. we report a 36 year old female with an anterior mediastinal mass and severe pancytopenia. with a mediastinotomy incision, biopsy of the tumor was obtained. the report of the pathologist was thymoma of predominant epithelial type. after a median sternotomy, there was complete resection of the tumor with removal of two segments of the right upper lobe and the involved pericardium (stage 3 of thymoma). unfortunately, after complete resection of the tumor there was no improvement in the pancytopenia. the patient died because of sepsis about 33 days after operation. abstract

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medical journal of islamic republic of iran

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