Resected case of giant cystic thymoma with spontaneous intracystic hemorrhage
| Autor: | Yasutaka Takubo, Yasuto Sakaguchi, Yasuji Terada, Teruya Komatsu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
congenital hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities Thymoma business.industry Cysts lcsh:Surgery Mediastinal tumor Cystic thymoma chemical and pharmacologic phenomena Case Report Hemorrhage lcsh:RD1-811 medicine.disease 03 medical and health sciences surgical procedures operative 0302 clinical medicine 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis hemic and lymphatic diseases Medicine 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Radiology business neoplasms |
| Zdroj: | Surgical Case Reports Surgical Case Reports, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 1-4 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2198-7793 |
| Popis: | Background Spontaneous intracystic hemorrhage of cystic thymoma is very rare. We encountered a patient with giant cystic thymoma with spontaneous intracystic hemorrhage and successfully resected the thymoma. Case presentation A 38-year-old man was referred to our hospital with chest pain. Computed tomography revealed a uniform anterior mediastinum cystic mass. Two days after hospitalization, his chest pain worsened. Subsequent computed tomography showed that the tumor had become inhomogeneous. The patient’s symptoms gradually improved over a fortnight, and surgery was performed. The tumor was a cystic mass with a thick fibrous capsule filled with hemorrhagic necrotic tissue and was diagnosed as a cystic thymoma. Conclusions Mediastinal cystic lesion with expansion or contrasting effects in the wall may be a cystic thymoma, and it has the possibility of hemorrhaging in the cyst. In such a case, surgical resection is recommended. |
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