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An autopsy case of a cystic variant of thymic carcinoma mimicking a thymic cyst

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An autopsy case of thymic carcinoma is reported. The surgically excised cystic tumour from a 38-year-old Japanese male mimicked a thymic cyst pathologically. After a clinical course of 6 years, postmortem examination disclosed extensive metastases, including cystic lesions lined by benign-loocking squamous epithelium. This evidence suggested that the present tumour was one of the specific variants of thymic carcinoma and not a thymic cyst with malignant transformation.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Bohseidai, Isehara-shi, 259-11, Kanagawa, Japan

    Yuko Katoh, Kazuo Shimamura, Kennichi Kakudo, R. Yoshiyuki Osamura & Norikazu Tamaoki

  2. Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Tokai University Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

    Kennichi Kakudo & R. Yoshiyuki Osamura

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Katoh, Y., Shimamura, K., Kakudo, K. et al. An autopsy case of a cystic variant of thymic carcinoma mimicking a thymic cyst. Vichows Archiv A Pathol Anat 417, 85–87 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01600114

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