1. Tumors of the thymus.
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Strollo DC and Rosado-de-Christenson ML
- Subjects
- Cysts diagnostic imaging, Cysts pathology, Diagnosis, Differential, Endocrine System Diseases diagnostic imaging, Endocrine System Diseases pathology, Humans, Prognosis, Thymus Hyperplasia diagnostic imaging, Thymus Hyperplasia pathology, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Thymus Neoplasms diagnostic imaging, Thymus Neoplasms pathology
- Abstract
Thymic neoplasms are a common cause of an anterior mediastinal mass and may be benign or malignant. Thymic cysts are congenital or acquired and may be associated with a thymic malignancy. True thymic hyperplasia and thymic lymphoid hyperplasia may enlarge the thymus and simulate a neoplasm. Thymoma and thymic carcinoma are epithelial malignancies with distinct clinicopathologic features. Thymic carcinoid is a rare aggressive neuroendocrine malignancy associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia 1. Thymolipoma is a benign neoplasm. Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma may primarily or secondarily involve the thymus. Primary mediastinal germ cell tumors may arise primarily within the thymus and include mature teratoma, seminoma, and non-seminomatous malignant germ cell tumors.
- Published
- 1999
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