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ArticleJournal of cardiothoracic surgery2023

Primary unifocal thymic Rosai-Dorfman disease: an extremely rare challenge in diagnostic practice.

Qian Liu, Fengxiang Liao, Yong Liu, Yang Cheng, Chubo Qi

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Article in Journal of cardiothoracic 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 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Qian LiuDepartment of Pathology, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang Medical College, No. 152, Aiguo Road, Nanchang, 330006, China.
Fengxiang LiaoDepartment of Nuclear medicine, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang Medical College, Nanchang, 330006, China.
Yong LiuDepartment of Pathology, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang Medical College, No. 152, Aiguo Road, Nanchang, 330006, China.
Yang ChengDepartment of Pathology, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang Medical College, No. 152, Aiguo Road, Nanchang, 330006, China.
Chubo QiDepartment of Pathology, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang Medical College, No. 152, Aiguo Road, Nanchang, 330006, China. Qichubo@163.com.
First Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi Medical College · CNJiangxi Provincial People's Hospital · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81760038
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) is currently considered a group of neoplastic diseases of unknown etiology, with monoclonal proliferation of histiocytes, showing unique histopathologic features and varying clinical presentation. Primary thymic RDD is an extremely rare extranodal form of this disorder. In this study, we describe the case of an otherwise healthy 64-year-old Chinese man who presented with an isolated, asymptomatic soft tissue density lesion in the anterior mediastinum detected by computed tomography. Histology of the surgical specimen revealed infiltration of thymic tissue by sheets of large histiocytes with mixed lymphocytes and plasma cells, and background fibrosis. Immunohistochemical staining of the histiocytes was positive for S100, CD68, CD163, OCT2 and cyclin D1, but negative for CD1a and BrafV600E expression, thus supporting a diagnosis of RDD. Primary thymic RDD is extremely rare and may be a diagnostic challenge when presenting as mediastinal lesion.

Indexed as

Histiocytosis, SinusMusculoskeletal DiseasesHistiocytesHumansLymphocytesMaleMediastinumMiddle AgedThymus GlandPathologic diagnosisRosai-Dorfman disease (RDD)Thymus

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PMID37817188
PMCPMC10566069
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