Thymic carcinoma natural history, complications and prognosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Alejandro Lemor, M.D. [2]
Overview
Natural History
Complications
Prognosis
The most important factor for prognosis is the stage and grade of the thymic carcinoma. The subtypes squamous cell carcinoma, mucoepidermoid and basaloid carcinoma have a better prognosis than other histological subtypes. For neuroendocrine carcinomas, the malignancy is intermediate between thymoma and thymic carcinoma, being the small cell and large cell carcinomas the most malignant.
There has been some reported cases in which it metastasize to lung and liver.