thymoma with pancytopenia: a case report and review of the literature
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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 iranجلد ۲۱، شماره ۲، صفحات ۱۱۵-۱۱۸
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