Thymoma: A case report and update.

Afr J Thorac Crit Care Med

Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.

Published: April 2019

Thymomas are slow growing, evolve with metastasis and commonly present as ipsilateral pleural involvement along with the primary tumour of the mediastinum. Early-stage recognition and treatment with surgical resection and postoperative chemoradiotherapy may offer a better 10-year survival rate.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8278991PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SARJ.2019.v25i1.229DOI Listing

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