TY - JOUR
T1 - Pulmonary metastasis from encapsulated cervical ectopic type a thymoma
AU - Kinoshita, Tomonari
AU - Yoshida, Junji
AU - Ishii, Genichiro
AU - Aokage, Keiju
AU - Hishida, Tomoyuki
AU - Nagai, Kanji
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PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - A 39-year-old woman underwent tumor resection for an encapsulated cervical ectopic thymoma (type A). However 7 years after complete resection, computed tomography (CT) screening detected a 9-mm pulmonary nodule, which was completely resected and was diagnosed as a metastasis from the ectopic thymoma. There have been few reports on cervical ectopic thymoma metastasizing to a distant site and, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of a cervical ectopic type A thymoma with distant metastasis.
AB - A 39-year-old woman underwent tumor resection for an encapsulated cervical ectopic thymoma (type A). However 7 years after complete resection, computed tomography (CT) screening detected a 9-mm pulmonary nodule, which was completely resected and was diagnosed as a metastasis from the ectopic thymoma. There have been few reports on cervical ectopic thymoma metastasizing to a distant site and, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of a cervical ectopic type A thymoma with distant metastasis.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.05.092
DO - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.05.092
M3 - Article
C2 - 23176955
AN - SCOPUS:84869988686
SN - 0003-4975
VL - 94
SP - e141-e142
JO - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
JF - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
IS - 6
ER -