Morphological changes in the human thymus in cancer
Zabusov, I.G.
Voprosy Onkologii 25(11): 16-20
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0507-3758 PMID: 516558 Document Number: 147679
Morphohistochemical and morphometric assays of the thymus from 40 persons, died as a result of cancer of various localizations, demonstrated a reliable diminishing in size of Hassell's corpuscles, the constant presence of blast thymocytes, an increased content of PAS-positive cells, reticuloepithelial dystrophy. Under lymphogenic metastasization and adrenal metastases the thymus may also increase its bulk. Some alternative changes in the thymus when involved by metastases are described.