Middle mediastinal thymoma of unusual pathologic type

Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2006 Jun;12(3):200-2.

Abstract

Among the many sites of ectopic thymoma development, the middle mediastinum is the rarest in the English language literature we found only two case reports. We present a case of 69-year-old woman with slow-growing, ectopic middle mediastinum thymoma of an very unusual histological type, neither classified in the Müller-Hermelink nor the World Health Organization (WHO) classification.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / classification
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / surgery
  • Thymoma / classification
  • Thymoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Thymoma / pathology*
  • Thymoma / surgery
  • Thymus Neoplasms / classification
  • Thymus Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Thymus Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Thymus Neoplasms / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed