Surgically treated aggressive mediastinal sarcoma: a tumor of possible thymic origin
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Roman Dutta, MS · Arvind Kumar, MS Umashankkar Kannan, MS · Amar Pal Bhalla, MD Seema Kaushal, MD · Pramod Kumar Julka, MD
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
True sarcoma of thymus has no epithelial component. This tumor behaves aggressively with invasion of adjacent structures. Only a few anecdotal case reports of this tumor are found in the English-language literature, and they describe a poor outcome. This case report describes a rapidly growing thymic sarcoma diagnosed at an advanced stage with a compressive effect on the heart. The tumor was resected en bloc with adjacent invaded structures.
Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2011) 59:65–67 DOI 10.1007/s11748-010-0602-2 Received: 29 September 2009 / Accepted: 18 February 2010
