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ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2012

Chronic shoulder pain referred from thymic carcinoma: a case report and review of literature.

Shu-Wei Dee, Mu-Jung Kao, Chang-Zern Hong, Li-Wei Chou, Henry L Lew

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Article in Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Shu-Wei DeeDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung.
Mu-Jung Kao
Chang-Zern Hong
Li-Wei Chou
Henry L Lew
China Medical University · TWHungkuang University · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a case of thymic carcinoma presenting as unilateral shoulder pain for 13 months. Before an accurate diagnosis was made, the patient received conservative treatment, cervical discectomies, and myofascial trigger point injection, none of which relieved his pain. When thymic carcinoma was eventually diagnosed, he received total resection of the tumor and the shoulder pain subsided completely. Thymic carcinoma is a rare carcinoma, and our review of the literature did not show shoulder pain as its initial presentation except for one case report. The purpose of this report is to document our clinical experience so that other physiatrists can include thymic carcinoma in their differential diagnosis of shoulder pain.

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referred painshoulder painthymic carcinoma

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PMID22969299
PMCPMC3435118
OpenAlexW1985052310

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