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We herein report an 83-year-old man who presented with a pleural tumor in the right thorax. The tumor was surgically resected and histopathologically diagnosed as ectopic primary pleural thymoma lacking any evidence of a mediastinal tumor. The clinicopathological aspects of this unusual thymoma are also discussed.
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Higashiyama, M., Doi, O., Kodama, K. et al. Ectopic primary pleural thymoma: Report of a case. Surg Today 26, 747–750 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312100
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