Mediastinum
Thymoma
Ectopic thymoma
Author: Hanni Gulwani, M.B.B.S.
Topic Completed: 1 December 2012
Minor changes: 4 December 2019
Copyright: 2003-2019, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
PubMed Search: Ectopic thymoma[TI]
Table of Contents
Definition / general | Epidemiology | Case reports | Microscopic (histologic) imagesCite this page: Gulwani H. Ectopic thymoma. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/mediastinumectopicthymoma.html. Accessed August 14th, 2020.
Definition / general
- Resembles thymoma but in neck (Histopathology 2005;46:583)
- All reported cases had benign behavior
Epidemiology
- Usually women
Case reports
- 69 year old woman with ectopic mid mediastinum thymoma of unusual histological type (Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;12:200)
- 75 year old man with primary pleural thymoma (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2006;130:e62)
Microscopic (histologic) images
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Pleural thymoma
Pleural thymoma: keratin+, CK5 / 6+, p63+, Tdt+
