Unusual late presentation of metastatic extrathoracic thymoma to gastrohepatic lymph node treated by surgical resection.

Journal: General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
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Abstract

In advanced stages, thymic tumors tend to spread locally. Distant metastatic disease is rare. We present the first report of single metastatic abdominal lymph node in a 37-year-old female patient and 5 years after an extrapleural pneumonectomy for stage IV thymoma followed by radiotherapy with no other evidence of abdominal disease successfully treated by robotic surgical resection.

Authors

  • Andrea Billè
    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY, 10065, USA. Andrea_bille@hotmail.it.
  • Sandeep Sachidananda
    Department of Surgery, Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, CT, USA.
  • Andre L Moreira
    Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
  • Nabil P Rizk
    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY, 10065, USA.