Thymic carcinoma physical examination
|
Thymic Carcinoma Microchapters |
|
Diagnosis |
|---|
|
Case Studies |
|
Thymic carcinoma physical examination On the Web |
|
American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Thymic carcinoma physical examination |
|
Risk calculators and risk factors for Thymic carcinoma physical examination |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Alejandro Lemor, M.D. [2]
Physical Examination
The symptoms are not specific and are related to a mediastinal mass. The patients may complain of dull chest pain, cough, or dyspnoea and constitutional symptoms such as fatigue, anorexia, weight loss and malaise. Some patients are asymptomatic and during an imaging examination they incidentally discover an anterior mediastinal mass.
Thymic carcinomas may cause pericardial and pleural effusions, which may lead to respiratory symptoms such as shortness of breath.
There have been no report cases of miastenia gravis associated with thymic carcinoma. Superior vena cava syndrome may occur depending to the size of the tumor.