Thymic carcinoma
Chronic shoulder pain referred from thymic carcinoma: a case report and review of literature
... of thymic carcinoma likely due to phrenic nerve or pericar- dium involvement, and this type of pain may be similar to myofascial pain syndrome, neurogenic pain from a cervical disc, and referred pain from ...
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Radical surgical resection of advanced thymoma and thymic carcinoma infiltrating the heart or great vessels with cardiopulmonary bypass support
... However, in this rare surgical condition no common and standardized treatment regime exists yet and the optimal way of therapy remains controversial [11, 12]. Most patients presenting with thymoma/thymic car- ...
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An unusual combined thymic carcinoma composed of squamous cell carcinoma and type AB thymoma: a rare case report
... cell carcinoma. The Ki67 index in squamous cell carcinoma was approximately 50% ...and thymic carcinoma were similar, but there was greater MLH1 and MSH2 loss in thymic car- cinoma ...
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Case Report Langerhans cell proliferation in micronodular thymic carcinoma with lymphoid stroma: report of a rare case
... Micronodular thymic carcinoma (MN- CA) with lymphoid hyperplasia was more recent- ly described as the malignant counterpart of micronodular thymoma with lymphoid B-cell hyperplasia [1] (Table ...
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Breast Metastasis of Thymic Carcinoma
... The immunohistochemical analysis confirmed that neoplastic cells were positive for Keratins (AE1/AE3), CD5 and negative for oestrogen receptors, thus excluding a breast origin of the tumour. Clinical data and ...
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Treatment and survival analyses of completely resected thymic carcinoma patients
... Purpose: To investigate the impact of chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy on disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) rates of patients with thymic carcinoma after complete resection. Methods: ...
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Clinical and immunohistochemical study of eight cases with thymic carcinoma
... Methods: There were 2 men and 6 women: ages ranged from 19 to 67 years old (mean 54.8 years). None of these patients had concomitant myasthenia gravis and pure red cell aplasia. No patient had stage I disease, 1 stage ...
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Cytoreductive surgery combined with hyperthermic intrapleural chemotherapy to treat thymoma or thymic carcinoma with pleural dissemination
... treatment of pleural recurrent thymoma remains controversial due to the unpredictable natural history of this tumor. In the following, discussion has been made concentrating on our experience in cytoreductive surgery ...
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Case Report Ectopic thymic carcinoma in parotid gland: a rare case and review of literature
... ectopic thymic carci- noma is similar to thymic ...ectopic thymic carcinoma, cases 1 and 3 had chemotherapy and radio- therapy, case 5 was treated with radiotherapy, and case 6 had ...
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Tumor-related gene expression levels in thymic carcinoma and Type B3 thymoma
... A thymic carcinoma (TC) is a rare type of malignant neoplasm that develops in the anterior mediastinum and associated with poor prognosis ...these thymic epithelial tumors, and recently the ...
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Case Report Intrathyroid thymic carcinoma: report of two cases with pathologic and immunohistochemical studies
... follicular carcinoma, poorly differentiated carcinomas, and follicular ...in thymic carcinoma is ...of thymic differ- entiation of ...lymphoepithelial carcinoma, neuroendocrine ...
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Inferior Vena Cava and Renal Vein Thrombosis Associated with Thymic Carcinoma
... by thymic carcinoma. Although rare, thymic carci- nomas can cause distant manifestations and are discovered when nonspecific symptoms start to ...
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Thymoma and thymic carcinoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst: a clinicopathologic analysis of 18 cases
... Applying the new edition of the histologic classifica- tion system of WHO [1], 2 atypical type A (Fig. 3a), 2 type AB, 1 type B1 (Fig. 3b), 8 type B2, 1 type B3, 1 micro- scopic thymoma (type A) (Fig. 3c), 2 SCC and 1 ...
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Emerging treatment options for patients with recurrent advanced thymic epithelial tumors
... Of the 41 patients enrolled, 25 had thymoma and 16 had thymic carcinoma. All patients had progressed following at least one line of platinum-containing chemotherapy. Forty patients were evaluable for ...
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Unusual combined thymic mucoepidermoid carcinoma and thymoma: a case report and review of literature
... in thymic epithelial tumors is closely re- lated with the pathogenesis and biological behavior of the neoplasms ...for thymic MEC because of the rarity of this ...for thymic carcinoma are ...
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Unexpected Dramatic Response of Pretreated Invasive Thymic Malignancies on Pemetrexed Case Report and Review of Current Treatment Modalities
... A 59-year-old Caucasian woman was diagnosed with thymic carcinoma in June 2011. A biopsy showed a thymic carcinoma consisting of poorly differentiated squamous cell type. She was sent to our ...
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Case Report Thymic mucoepidermoid carcinomas: a clinicopathologic case study and literature review
... Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is a type of malignant tumor consisting of mainly epider- moid, mucous, and intermediate ...[1-4]. Thymic epithelial tu- mors are primarily comprised of thymoma and ...
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Total thymectomy for thymic lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma—report of two cases
... reported thymic carcinoma in 1977 as a squamous cell carcinoma of the thymus [4], which has recently been shown to account for 14% of all thymic epithelial tumor cases [3, ...of thymic ...
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Evaluation of the new TNM staging system for thymic malignancies: impact on indication and survival
... and thymic carcinoma should be complete surgical resection based on a stage-adapted treatment including multimodal- ity therapy in advanced stages [1 – ...for thymic tumors have been proposed and ...
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Stage-related outcome for thymic epithelial tumours
... and thymic carcinoma of the Thoracic Surgery Unit of Perugia and Terni, in the period from January 2000 to December 2016, is retro- spectively ...suspected thymic epithelial tumours are listed in ...
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