Educational Case: Thymoma

Gregory Chandler; Isaac E McCool; Alison R Huppmann

doi:10.1177/23742895211021980

Educational Case: Thymoma

Acad Pathol. 2021 Jul 8:8:23742895211021980. doi: 10.1177/23742895211021980. eCollection 2021 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Gregory Chandler¹, Isaac E McCool², Alison R Huppmann³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA.
² Department of Pathology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA.
³ Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, SC, USA.

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040. ¹.

Keywords: hematopathology; lymphoma; mediastinal mass; organ system pathology; pathology competencies; thymoma; thymus.