Nihon Rinsho Geka Gakkai Zasshi (Journal of Japan Surgical Association)
Online ISSN : 1882-5133
Print ISSN : 1345-2843
ISSN-L : 1345-2843
Case Reports
A case of thymoma that metastasised to multiple distant organs 17 years after initial surgery
Rie MATSUMOTOShigeo IMAINaomi SASAKI
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2011 Volume 72 Issue 8 Pages 1969-1973

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The patient was a 68-year-old man who had an extended thymectomy for invasive thymoma associated with myasthenia gravis at the age of 51. Seventeen years later he was found to have multiple distant metastases located in the right thoracic wall, the mediastinal lymph nodes, bone tissue, lung tissue, adrenal tissue, and bilateral glutei. Despite radiation therapy to the sacrum and systemic chemotherapy, the patient died not having had a response to therapy. Based on the autopsy findings, multiple metastases combined with thymoma (Type B2, B3) and thymic carcinoma were diagnosed. We report this rare case and present the pathology of the primary, as well as each metastatic region.
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