ArticleSurgical case reports2017
Mediastinal seminoma associated with multilocular thymic cyst.
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- Resection of shrinking secondary thymic cyst during follow-up-a case report.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2024Article
- Unusual giant multilocular thymic cyst with mature teratoma including a carcinoid component in the mediastinum.Surgical case reports · 2022Article
- A multilocular thymic cyst associated with mediastinal seminoma: evidence for its medullary epithelial origin highlighted by POU2F3-positive thymic tuft cells and concomitant myoid cell proliferation.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2021Article
- Anterior mediastinal lesions: CT and MRI features and differential diagnosis.Japanese journal of radiology · 2021Review
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Abstract
An asymptomatic 26-year-old man received an annual medical check-up, and chest X-ray showed a protrusion of the aortopulmonary window. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed an anterior mediastinal tumor and cysts with thin wall and septum enhancement. The preoperative diagnosis was cystic thymoma or malignant lymphoma. We performed total resection of the tumor through a median sternotomy. The pathological findings revealed seminoma, positive for c-kit stain, and multilocular thymic cysts. Cysts were lined by normal squamous epithelium and no seminoma cells were located on their surface. So, cysts were probably secondary changes caused by seminoma cells themselves or inflammatory stimulations. No invasion to adjacent structures was seen. After the surgery, testicular ultrasound imaging and abdominal, pelvic, and cerebral CT showed no apparent tumor or enlarged lymph nodes; however, an abnormal uptake in the right mesenteric lymph node was pointed out by
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