Primary pericardial thymoma: an unusual etiology of neoplastic pericarditis
Ben Hami, B.; Caulet-Maugendre, S.; Valla, J.; Heresbach-Le Berre, N.; Kernec, J.; Laurent, M.; Ramée, M.P.
Annales de Pathologie 16(6): 445-448
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0242-6498 PMID: 9090935 Document Number: 461307
We present a case of a primary pericardic thymoma, revealed by a pericardic effusion. This ectopic localisation is very unusual; neoplastic pericarditis are usually due to metastasis of carcinomas or lymphomas. Sometimes, they are secondary to pericardic invasion by mediastinal malignant thymomas or a metastasis of thymomas. Our patient presented a single pericardic localisation of thymoma without any other site. We discuss ectopic localisations of thymic tissue and thymomas and the diagnostic usefulness of the MIC 2 antibody.