Tumor-to-tumor metastasis: lung cancer within a thymoma

Tumor-to-tumor metastasis: lung cancer within a thymoma

Tumor-to-tumor metastasis is a rare phenomenon. We present a rare case of an 83-year-old man with pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma and thymoma. Thymectomy and superior segmentectomy of the left lower lobe were successfully performed on the patient. This thymoma had a region of lung cancer. Metastas...

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Veröffentlicht in:General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2021, Vol.69 (1), p.147-150
Hauptverfasser: Takahashi, H., Asato, Y., Ikeda, Y., Kijima, S., Tamura, Y., Hiraki, T., Hatanaka, K.
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Sprache:eng
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Aged, 80 and over
Cardiac Surgery
Cardiology
Case Report
Cells
Conflicts of interest
Humans
Kidney cancer
Lung cancer
Lung Neoplasms - surgery
Lymphatic system
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Melanoma
Metastasis
Patients
Surgical Oncology
Thoracic Surgery
Thymectomy
Thymoma - surgery
Thymus gland
Thymus Neoplasms - surgery
Tomography
Tumors
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Zusammenfassung:Tumor-to-tumor metastasis is a rare phenomenon. We present a rare case of an 83-year-old man with pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma and thymoma. Thymectomy and superior segmentectomy of the left lower lobe were successfully performed on the patient. This thymoma had a region of lung cancer. Metastasis from other tumors to thymoma is rare, and we found a report that described a pancreatic carcinoma metastasizing to thymoma. We report an extremely rare case of metastasis from lung cancer to a thymoma.
ISSN:1863-6705
1863-6713
DOI:10.1007/s11748-020-01481-5