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Pathology of Nonneoplastic Thymic Lesions

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The chapter on Nonneoplastic Thymic Lesions will cover the epidemiological, etiological and clinicopathological features of common thymic lesions (congenital and acquired cysts, including dysplasia); thymic follicular, rebound and “true” hyperplasia) as well as rare or recently described non-neoplastic thymic alterations that may form mass lesions and can mimic thymic neoplasms (“Lesa-like thymic hyperplasia”; “Cholesteroloma”; Fibrosing mediastinitis, including IgG4-related disease). Criteria concerning the broad spectrum of differential diagnoses will be highlighted.

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Marx, A. (2020). Pathology of Nonneoplastic Thymic Lesions. In: Jain, D., Bishop, J.A., Wick, M.R. (eds) Atlas of Thymic Pathology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3164-4_5

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