BACKGROUND Thymic epithelial neoplasms are rare malignant neoplasms originating in the thymus gland.There have been case reports of patients with advanced thymomas treated with a methylprednisolone pulse or with gluco...
Cystic lesions of the anterior mediastinum in children suggest a well-known group of benign lesions that are comparatively frequent.Thymic cysts(TCs)are mostly positioned in the anterior mediastinum and some patients ...
Godtfredsen syndrome or clival syndrome is a rare syndrome of abducens and hypoglossal nerve palsies (cranial nerve 6th and 12th respectively) that localizes to a clival mass. There are few reported cases of this clin...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.82172023);the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi (Grant Nos.2022JC-44 and 2022JQ-622);the National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases (Grant No.2015BAI13B07);the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (Grant Nos.Y1AA3009 to P.M.,D.T.,N.D.V.,and G.J.W.).
Background Manual segmentation of thymoma is an onerous,labor-intensive,and subjective task for radiologists.Accordingly,the development of an automatic and efficient method for thymoma segmentation can be valuable fo...
To the Editor,Thymoma is a rare mediastinal tumor originating from thymic epithelial cells.1 The incidence of a paraneoplastic syndrome(PNS)with thymoma is approximately seven times higher than that with thymic carcin...
Background: Protein kinase B (AKT/PKB) family is frequently amplified in ovarian cancer (OC). To the greatest of our knowledge, there is a lack of published reports about the amplification of the genes belonging to th...
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning province,No.2020-MS-179。
BACKGROUND Thymic lipofibroadenomas are extremely rare.In this study,we investigated the clinicopathological characteristics of thymic lipofibroadenomas.CASE SUMMARY This study included three patients with thymic lipo...
Background: Age is an important prognostic factor for thymoma;however, few studies have specifically focused on age-related survival outcomes in thymoma patients. This study explored the effect of age on the clinicopa...
To the Editor:Thymoma-associated multiorgan autoimmunity(TAMA)is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome described in patients with thymoma and characterized by multiorgan failure and graft-versus-host dis-ease(GVHD)like patho...
Therapeutic radiation plays an important role in the management of thymoma and thymic carcinoma.These two tumor types differ substantially in their aggressiveness and prognosis.The most pressing issue in radiotherapy ...