... (15.8%) patients (B1 thymoma n = 1; B2 thymoma n = 6; B3 thymoma n = 2; and thymic carcinoma n = 3), nonsmall cell lung cancer, sarcoma, and colorectal carcinoma in one patient each. The right hemithorax was affected in 50 (65.8%) patients and preoperative histological diagnosis based on video...

...Jun Tamaoki; Atsushi Chiyotani; Atsushi Nagai; Kimio Konno Lymphocytosis in the peripheral blood is a very rare manifestation of thymoma. A 45-year-old man presented with a giant mediastinal mass involving pleural dissemination and peripheral T cell lymphocytosis. Biopsy of the mediastinal mass...

...Takayuki Honda; Muneharu Hayasaka; Tsutomu Hachiya; Yoshiki Hirose; Keishi Kubo; Tsutomu Katsuyama A case of invasive thymoma with hypogammaglobulinemia showing endobronchial growth is presented. A 63-year-old man was admitted for evaluation of a left hilar mass. A biopsy specimen obtained from...

...Ch. Almog; M. Horowitz; M. Burke The authors present the case of a 48-year-old female known to have malignant thymoma with metastases for 6 years and treated continuously for 4 years by corticosteroids with marked regression of tumor. The patient ceased medication on her own accord...

...Marios E. Froudarakis; Olivier Tiffet; Pierre Fournel; Evangelos Briasoulis; Vasilis Karavasilis; Jacques Cuilleret; Jean-Michel Vergnon Background: Invasive thymoma is a rare mediastinal tumor. Clinicopathological characteristics that influence survival of patients with this tumor are under debate...