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ArticleWorld journal of clinical cases2025

Multilocular thymic cysts- a diagnostic challenge on computed tomography.

Nirmal Kumar Reddy Onteddu, Naga Sai Rasagna Mareddy, Sai Swarupa R Vulasala, Jayabharath Onteddu, Mayur Virarkar

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Nirmal Kumar Reddy OntedduDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL 32209, United States.
Naga Sai Rasagna MareddyDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States.
Sai Swarupa R VulasalaDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL 32209, United States. vulasalaswarupa@gmail.com.
Jayabharath OntedduDepartment of Public Health Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States.
Mayur VirarkarDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL 32209, United States.

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Abstract

A recent case report provided a patient scenario, wherein, a 39-year-old male patient presented with occasional palpitations, headache, and fever. Evaluation of tumor markers did not show any abnormal results. Subsequently, a computed tomography (CT) scan was undertaken, and its findings were affirmative of thymic cancer. Finally, the postoperative histopathological assessment of the mass, after its resection, confirmed it as an anterior mediastinal multilocular thymic cyst (MTC), with concurrent acute upper respiratory tract infection and acute myocarditis. Accordingly, this case report advocates the need for a preoperative histopathological examination with CT imaging to minimize the risk of confusing an MTC with a malignant thymic tumor.

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HistopathologyImaging findingsMediastinal massMultilocular thymic cystThymic cancer

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PMCPMC11577524

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