Intrapulmonary metastasis developing eighteen years after complete resection of thymoma |
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Authors: | Mamoru Uemura MD Masahiko Higashiyama MD Jiro Okami MD Kazuyuki Oda MD Koji Takami MD Ken Kodama MD |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, Higashinari-ku, 537-8511, Osaka, Japan
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Abstract: | We present a case of intrapulmonary metastasis developing 18 years after complete resection of thymoma. An 8 mm nodule in the lower lobe of the left lung was noted on chest X-ray in a 76-year-old woman who had undergone complete resection of Masaoka’s stage II thymoma 18 years earlier. Since the nodule grew to 17 mm during a 2-year follow-up, wedge resection was performed. The lesion was histologically diagnosed as an intrapulmonary metastasis from thymoma. Extremely late recurrence after complete resection of thymoma is discussed. |
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