Thymic carcinoma history and symptoms
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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
Symptoms
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 myasthenia gravis associated with thymic carcinoma. Superior vena cava syndrome may occur depending to the size of the tumor.