Thymic neoplasia in two male siblings

Wick, M.R.; Scheithauer, B.W.; Dines, D.E.

Mayo Clinic Proceedings 57(10): 653-656

1982


ISSN/ISBN: 0025-6196
PMID: 7121071
Document Number: 186667
Thymic tumors are uncommon, and malignant variants of such neoplasms are rare. Hence, the association of two siblings with aggressive tumors of the thymus is not likely to be a coincidence. We report on two brothers with thymic epithelial neoplasms, one being a thymic carcinoma and the other an invasive spindle cell thymoma with associated hypogammaglobulinemia.

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