Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Online ISSN : 2186-1005
Print ISSN : 1341-1098
ISSN-L : 1341-1098
Case Reports
Ectopic Cervical Thymoma Excised through a Transcervical Approach Combined with Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Case Report
Shintaro Yokoyama, Ryozo Hayashida, Koichi Yoshiyama, Kunihiro Ozaki, Toshihiro Matsuo, Shinzo Takamori, Yoshito Akagi
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Keywords: ectopic cervical thymoma, thymectomy, transcervical approach, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
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2015 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 293-297

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Abstract

Ectopic cervical thymoma (ECT) is a rare tumor. We present a case of 56-year-old woman with an ECT in the anterior neck that was correctly diagnosed preoperatively. The patient had no symptoms of myasthenia gravis or other immune disorders, and the tumor was not invading any adjacent structures. We performed tumor resection and thymectomy through a transcervical approach using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery with a multi-access single port. To our knowledge, this is a novel combined technique for the resection of an ECT.

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