Thymic carcinoma CT
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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]Parminder Dhingra, M.D. [3]
Overview
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Findings on chest CT scan suggestive of thymic carcinoma include:
- Larger and highly aggressive anterior mediastinal mass
- Areas of necrosis, haemorrhage, calcification, or cyst formation
- Aross invasion of contiguous mediastinal structures and wide spread to involve distant intrathoracic sites
- High incidence of extrathoracic metastases
- The CT would show a lobulated mass with irregular borders, heterogeneous attenuation and mediastinal fat invasion. Pleural and pericardic effusion might also be seen in a CT. In contrast with a thymoma, *A thymic carcinoma would be bigger.
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References
- ↑ "Malignant thymoma (thymic carcinoma)". Retrieved 27 February 2014. Text "Radiology Case " ignored (help); Text " Radiopaedia.org " ignored (help)