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A 70-years-old man visited our hospital with complaints of palpitations and shortness of breath from five days ago. Chest computed tomography( CT) revealed a solid tumor with 74 mm in diameter at the right anterior mediastinum and massive pericardial effusion. No malignant cells were noted in the pericardial effusion collected by pericardiocentesis.
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Kyobu Geka
October 2024
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan.
A 57-year-old man underwent partial resection of the right diaphragm with invasive thymoma dissemination. Fifteen days after surgery, he suddenly developed right-sided chest pain with dyspnea and was raced to the hospital. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed a massive right hemothorax, and emergency surgery was performed due to hemodynamic shock.
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Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2-L5, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
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- Mediastinal lymphatic tumors are rare and typically have a poor prognosis, but improvements in treatment have been noted recently.
- A 25-year-old man initially diagnosed with a thymoma underwent surgery, but post-anesthesia, he experienced respiratory complications that were linked to his mediastinal mass.
- The case highlights the importance of surgical biopsy for accurate diagnosis, while also emphasizing the need to consider the risks associated with general anesthesia in patients with mediastinal tumors.
Eculizumab Treatment of Massive Hemolysis Occurring in a Rare Co-Existence of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria and Myasthenia Gravis.
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April 2024
Department of Hematology, Institute of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Center, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary.
The co-occurrence of myasthenia gravis (MG) and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is rare; only one case has been published so far. We report a 63-year-old Caucasian female patient who was diagnosed with MG at the age of 43. Thymoma was also detected, and so it was surgically resected, which resulted in reasonable disease control for nearly 20 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRosai-Dorfman disease manifesting as a solitary mass with fat in the thymus a case report.
J Cardiothorac Surg
April 2024
Department of Radiology, The First People's Hospital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Xichang, Sichuan, China.
Background: Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy, also known as Rosai-Dorfman disease, is a rare, self-limiting disease that predominantly affects children and young adults. Moreover, the disease is characterized by painless bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy in 95% of the patients. However, few reports are available on the Rosai-Dorfman disease of the thymus.
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