Original articleRole of staging in prognosis and management of thymoma☆
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2016, Critical Reviews in Oncology/HematologyCitation Excerpt :Generally, patients with TCs present symptoms related to local invasion while more often patient with Ts present parathymic syndromes such as myasthenia gravis (MG). Of symptomatic patients, 40% present with chest pain, cough, hoarseness and dyspnoea (less frequently superior vena cava syndrome) related to the intra-thoracic mass, 30% have systemic symptoms making it difficult to differentiate from lymphoma (weight loss, rarely fever and night sweats) and the rest have neurological symptoms (Lewis et al., 1987; Quintanilla-Martinez et al., 1994; Wang et al., 1992; Elert et al., 1988; Blumberg et al., 1995; Wilkins et al., 1999, 1991; Moore et al., 2001; Kaiser and Martini, 1989). Rarely, thymic tumours can present as primary lesions outside the anterior mediastinum, such as the middle and posterior mediastinum, pleura, neck, and as intra-thyroidal lesions with histological characteristics of T (SETTLE: spindle cell epithelial tumours of thymic-like epithelium) (Quintanilla-Martinez et al., 1994).
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Presented at the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, Feb 18–20, 1991.