Pathogenesis of thymolipoma : report of three cases

Three case reports of thymolipoma are herein presented. One patient presented with myasthenia gravis, while the other patients were asymptomatic. The tumors in our cases all had histopathologically different features: case 1, lipoma of the thymus; case 2, involuted thymic hyperplasia; and case 3, ty...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Surgery today (Tokyo, Japan) Japan), 1995, Vol.25 (1), p.86-88
Hauptverfasser:	TOYAMA, T, MIZUNO, T, MASAOKA, A, SHIBATA, K, YAMAKAWA, Y, NIWA, H, TORII, K
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Child, Preschool Female Humans Lipoma - complications Lipoma - etiology Lipoma - pathology Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Myasthenia Gravis - etiology Pneumology Thymus Gland - pathology Thymus Hyperplasia - pathology Thymus Neoplasms - complications Thymus Neoplasms - etiology Thymus Neoplasms - pathology Tumors of the respiratory system and mediastinum
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Zusammenfassung:	Three case reports of thymolipoma are herein presented. One patient presented with myasthenia gravis, while the other patients were asymptomatic. The tumors in our cases all had histopathologically different features: case 1, lipoma of the thymus; case 2, involuted thymic hyperplasia; and case 3, typical thymolipoma. The histopathological findings of thymolipoma are discussed in the context of the pathogenesis of thymolipoma.
ISSN:	0941-1291 1436-2813
DOI:	10.1007/bf00309395