We read with interest the article by Dr. Sakuragi and colleagues concerning the iterative resection of recurrent thymic carcinoid [1]. I agree with the conclusion of the authors that aggressive surgical resection of such a neoplasm improves survival. This is an uncommon disease, and there is no sufficient experience in the English-language literature about the ‘ideal’ treatment. Due to its indo...

This paper reports two relatively rare cases of primary carcinoid tumors of the thymus experienced by the authors. One case is a 43-year old male who presented the Zollinger-Ellison (ZE) syndrome and received total gastrectomy and distal pancreatectomy. Mediastinal tumor was found one year and seven months post operatively, for which total extirpation was performed followed by irradiation. The ...

We report the case of a 35-year old woman with a giant thymic carcinoid of the left hemithorax. Enhanced computed tomography showed marked vascularization of the tumour, with an enlarged drainage vein. Endovascular embolization of the major feeding arteries of the tumour was performed preoperatively with good angiographic results. A left thoracotomy was performed the following day. Minimal blee...

A 22-year-old black woman presented with symptoms suggestive of Cushing's syndrome three years after chemotherapy for a presumed teratoma with cervical lymphadenopathy. Initially, the absence of clinical signs and the demonstration of two normal 24 h urinary free cortisols appeared to exclude the diagnosis, but an ectopic adrenocorticotropin-producing thymic carcinoid was subsequently removed s...

We describe the case of a young female affected by a thymus teratoma coexisting with carcinoid tumor.