Middle mediastinal thymoma of unusual pathologic type
Kuzdzał, J.ła.; Zieliński, M.; Papla, B.ła.; Szlubowski, A.
Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Official Journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia 12(3): 200-202
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 1341-1098 PMID: 16823335 Document Number: 604459
Among the many sites of ectopic thymoma development, the middle mediastinum is the rarest in the English language literature we found only two case reports. We present a case of 69-year-old woman with slow-growing, ectopic middle mediastinum thymoma of an very unusual histological type, neither classified in the Müller-Hermelink nor the World Health Organization (WHO) classification.