A Rare Case of Mediastinal Masson's Tumor Mimicking a Thymoma
| Autor: | Giuseppe Marulli, Antonietta Cimmino, Giuseppe Ingravallo, Angela De Palma, Rosatea Quercia, Giulia De Iaco, Mariagrazia Lorusso |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Thymoma Anatomic Site Resection Diagnosis Differential Surgical removal Rare case medicine Humans Hyperplasia business.industry Mediastinum Thymus Neoplasms Middle Aged medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia Surgery Endothelium Vascular Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | The Annals of thoracic surgery. 113(1) |
| ISSN: | 1552-6259 |
| Popis: | Masson's tumor or intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (IPEH) is a rare non-malignant pseudotumoral disease, arising in different anatomic sites, that can clinically and radiologically mimic various benign and malignant tumors. We report the first case in the literature of a mediastinal Masson's tumor, mimicking a thymoma, in a 48-year old man, successfully treated with surgery. Though surgical removal may be technically difficult due to the intrinsic hypervascularized nature of these pseudotumoral benign lesions, resection is generally recommended as they represent a locus minoris resistentiae of blood vessels, potentially causing fatal bleedings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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