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Pathogenesis of thymolipoma: Report of three cases

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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.

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  1. Second Department of Surgery, Nagoya City University Medical School, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, 467, Nagoya, Japan

    Tatsuya Toyama, Tsutomu Mizuno, Akira Masaoka, Kazuo Shibata, Yousuke Yamakawa, Hiroshi Niwa & Kei Torii

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Toyama, T., Mizuno, T., Masaoka, A. et al. Pathogenesis of thymolipoma: Report of three cases. Surg Today 25, 86–88 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309395

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