Thymic pathology and cardiac myxomas: Coincidence or a closer relationship?
| Autor: | Dimitrios Pappas, Apostolos C. Agrafiotis, Maria Stergianni, Chrysovalantis Pothitakis, Sotirios Moraitis, Ioannis Koukis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Thymoma animal diseases Left atrium lcsh:Medicine Thymic Tumors thymic hyperplasia Lesion Medicine cardiovascular diseases neoplasms Enlarged thymus business.industry lcsh:R virus diseases Myxoma thymoma Hyperplasia medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure cardiovascular system medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Cardiac myxomas |
| Zdroj: | Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, Vol 88, Iss 1 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1122-0643 |
| Popis: | Myxomas are the most common benign cardiac tumors and are located more frequently in the left atrium. In the literature there are cases describing the coexistence of thymic tumors and cardiac myxomas. In the case reported herein, during the resection of a cardiac myxoma, an enlarged thymus gland was encountered and resected. The histological exam revealed a thymic hyperplasia. The aim of this case study is to assess the need of conducting further studies in order to identify a common histological pathway between thymic lesions and cardiac myxomas. The diagnosis of a cardiac myxoma could justify a further workup of the anterior mediastinum in order not to overlook a lesion of thymic origin. |
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