Ossifying thymoma clinically presenting with peripheral T-cell lymphocytosis

Ann Thorac Surg. 2009 Jul;88(1):e5-7. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.03.093.

Abstract

We believe there has been only one ossifying thymoma reported in the English literature. We herein reported another such case with additional peculiar presentation of peripheral T-cell lymphocytosis. A 62-year-old woman was incidentally found to have an anterior mediastinal tumor during a medical check-up, which was surgically resected 42 months later and histopathologically confirmed to be a type B1 thymoma with stromal ossification. Fifty months after tumor removal, this patient remains alive and well without relapsed disease.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Incidental Findings
  • Lymphocytosis / pathology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Ossification, Heterotopic / pathology*
  • Risk Assessment
  • T-Lymphocytes / pathology*
  • Thoracotomy / methods
  • Thymoma / diagnosis
  • Thymoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Thymoma / surgery
  • Thymus Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Thymus Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Thymus Neoplasms / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome