Occurrence of thymic pathology in two families. Is familial screening justified?
| Autor: | Sotirios Moraitis, Marina Constantinou, Amalia Kapranou, Panagiotis Hountis, Apostolos C. Agrafiotis, Konstantinos Kanakakis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Adult Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Thymoma lcsh:Medicine thymic hyperplasia Lesion Familial Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 medicine Screening programs Humans Mass Screening Family Thymic carcinoma Early Detection of Cancer Aged business.industry Thymic Carcinoid lcsh:R Carcinoma Thymus Neoplasms Hyperplasia Middle Aged medicine.disease Myasthenia gravis Positron-Emission Tomography Female Thymus Hyperplasia medicine.symptom Radiopharmaceuticals Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business thymic carcinoma |
| Zdroj: | Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, Vol 88, Iss 3 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1122-0643 |
| Popis: | The familial occurrence of thymic pathology, even though rare, is widely reported in the literature and mainly concerns cases of familial autoimmune myasthenia gravis. Other less frequent cases of familial occurrence of thymoma, thymic carcinoid and thymic hyperplasia have been described. It seems that the familial occurrence is poorly recorded and thus its prevalence is underestimated. We report two families whose members presented different forms of thymic pathology and discuss the necessity of screening programs in family members of patients presenting a thymic lesion. |
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