Multiple thymic carcinoids

Koji Kawaguchi; Noriyasu Usami; Toshiki Okasaka; Kohei Yokoi

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.11.067

Multiple thymic carcinoids

Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Jun;91(6):1973-5. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.11.067.

Authors

Koji Kawaguchi¹, Noriyasu Usami, Toshiki Okasaka, Kohei Yokoi

Affiliation

¹ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan. gucci@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

PMID: 21619996
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.11.067

Abstract

We present a very rare case of simultaneous thymic carcinoids with similar size, one of which showed spontaneous regression. A 68-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of two similar abnormal masses at his anterior mediastinum on chest computed tomography, one of which had decreased from 25 to 16 mm in diameter. A total thymectomy was performed and the pathologic examinations revealed that both tumors were atypical carcinoids. There have been seldom reports of multiple thymic carcinoids, and this case might suggest that total thymectomy is the best way to treat thymic carcinoid because of the possibility of multicentric origins.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Carcinoid Tumor / diagnosis
Carcinoid Tumor / pathology*
Carcinoid Tumor / surgery
Humans
Male
Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / diagnosis
Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology*
Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / surgery
Thymus Neoplasms / diagnosis
Thymus Neoplasms / pathology*
Thymus Neoplasms / surgery