ArticleGeneral thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2021
Thymic lipofibroadenoma accompanied with largish calcifications.
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- Thymolipoma and lipofibroadenoma, two sides of the same coin?Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2026Article
- Thymic lipofibroadenoma: A case report.Radiology case reports · 2024Article
- Thymic lipofibroadenomas: Three case reports.World journal of clinical cases · 2023Article
- Asymptomatic lipofibroadenoma in a 17-year-old male: a case report and literature review of a rare entity.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2023Article
- Thymofibrolipoma: a case report and review of the literature.Diagnostic pathology · 2022Review
- The effect of three-dimensional nursing management on the respiratory exercise compliance and nursing efficiency in post-thoracotomy patients with acute pulmonary embolisms.American journal of translational research · 2021Article
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Abstract
Thymic lipofibroadenomas are extremely rare; their radiological features have never been reported. We report the first case of a lipofibroadenoma with some largish calcifications mimicking a teratoma. A 28-year-old man had an anterior mediastinal tumor with some calcifications on preoperative computed tomography, which was suspected to be a mature teratoma and resected through robot-assisted thoracic surgery. This tumor had strands of epithelial cells separated by abundant fibrous stroma containing fat cells and was thus diagnosed as a lipofibroadenoma. He was well without any recurrence 6 months postoperatively. Largish calcifications on preoperative computed tomography make distinguishing between teratomas and lipfibroadenomas difficult.
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