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ArticleCase reports in surgery2023

"An Unusual Pattern of Metastasis" Metastatic Malignant Thymoma Presented with Breast Lump: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Kah-Seng Khoo, Kavinya Diana T Nadesalingam, Diana Bee-Lan Ong, Li-Ying Teoh, Mei-Sze Teh, Suniza Jamaris, Mee-Hoong See

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Article in Case reports in surgery, 2023. 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 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kah-Seng KhooDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1199-3573
Kavinya Diana T NadesalingamDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Diana Bee-Lan OngDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Li-Ying TeohBreast Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Mei-Sze TehBreast Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Suniza JamarisBreast Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Mee-Hoong SeeBreast Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3966-3368
University of Malaya · MY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metastatic lesions to the breast from extramammary malignant neoplasms are rare and reported account for 0.5-6.6% of all breast malignancies. Distant metastasis of thymoma is even rarer, especially to extrathoracic regions. We reported a woman with invasive malignant thymoma postneoadjuvant and resection of the thymoma, who developed breast metastasis 7 years later. Breast imaging showed high-density lesion with no intralesional microcalcifications and no significant axillary lymphadenopathy. Core biopsy and histopathology proved the lesion to be metastatic thymic carcinoma. Despite rarity, breast lumps with underlying extramammary malignancy should raise the suspicious of breast metastasis.

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