Swimming Heart: A Pleural, Pulmonary and Pericardial Disseminated Thymoma  

作　　者：Lígia Fernandes André Rodrigues Vera Clérigo Cláudia Rocha Dora Sargento Glória Silva 

机构地区：[1]Servico de Medicina III, Hospital Pulido Valente, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal

出　　处：《Open Journal of Clinical Diagnostics》2014年第4期212-216,共5页临床诊断学期刊（英文）

摘　　要：Thymoma is the most common neoplasm of the anterior mediastinum and accounts for one quarter of all mediastinal tumours and half of all anterior mediastinal masses. Pericardial effusion may be present in approximately 20% of cases. This report presents a patient with a previously diagnosed thymoma without surgical indication and with poor response to chemotherapy and radiotherapy who had a pericardial effusion that likely resulted from the malignancy dissemination to pericardium.Thymoma is the most common neoplasm of the anterior mediastinum and accounts for one quarter of all mediastinal tumours and half of all anterior mediastinal masses. Pericardial effusion may be present in approximately 20% of cases. This report presents a patient with a previously diagnosed thymoma without surgical indication and with poor response to chemotherapy and radiotherapy who had a pericardial effusion that likely resulted from the malignancy dissemination to pericardium.

关 键 词：THYMOMA Metastases PERICARDIAL Effusion MYASTHENIA GRAVIS 

分 类 号：R73[医药卫生—肿瘤]