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Niedzwiecki, Gerald A.; Bp, Wood

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1990.02150340095032

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“…Patients with cavernous hemangioma present with cough, chest pain, dyspnea, hemoptysis, and hoarseness. It has occasionally been observed as recurrent pleural effusion [7] or recurrent pneumonia caused by an airway obstruction [5]. In our case, the patient presented without any symptoms.…”

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Cavernous hemangioma of thymus misdiagnosed as thymoma: a case report

Shen

Liang

et al. 2014

World J Surg Onc

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IntroductionCavernous hemangioma in the thymus is a rare presentation in mediastinal hemangiomas. The diagnosis is difficult to make promptly because both invasive and noninvasive examinations usually fail to distinguish it from other tumors of the mediastinum. Their clinical presentations depends on their size and their involvement with adjacent mediastinal structures.Case presentationWe treated a 52-year-old man with thymic cavernous hemangioma that was incidentally detected by chest radiography during a routine health check, and had been misdiagnosed as thymoma before the operation. The tumor was completely resected by thymectomy via video-assisted thoracic surgery. The pathological tissue was diagnosed as a cavernous hemangioma, and no phlebolith was observed in the center.ConclusionsWe reported this case of thymic cavernous hemangioma for its extremely rare occurrence in the thymus. The preoperative diagnosis remains a challenge both clinically and radiologically. It is still difficult to distinguish this tumor from other tumors in the thymus. Furthermore, biopsies might not result in a definitive diagnosis. Finally, surgical resection provides material for histopathologic diagnosis. To facilitate the preoperative diagnosis of such a rare tumor, more cases will need to be reported.

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“…The mass was a well-demarcated nodule in the left lobe of the thymus. There are three reports of six thymic hemangiomas for which no pathology reports and specific clinical data were available [1, 5, 6]. …”

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Cavernous hemangioma of thymus misdiagnosed as thymoma: a case report

Shen

Liang

et al. 2014

World J Surg Onc

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Hemangioma in the anterior mediastinum

Nishikawa

Osaki

Tajima

et al. 2003

Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg

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Anterior mediastinal hemangiomas are very rare neoplasms in mediastinal tumors. A 58-year-old woman was revealed to have a mass measuring 4 x 3 cm in size in the anterior mediastinum with calcification on computed tomography. It was initially suspected to be a thymoma. We performed tumor extirpation in November 1998. The tumor was close to the thymus and slightly adhered to the superior vena cava, ascending aorta and right phrenic nerve, however, it did not invade any surrounding organs. Histopathologically, it was diagnosed to be a venous type hemangioma composed of vessels covered by smooth muscle and a cavernous type hemangioma composed of dilated vessels covered by one layer of endothelial cells.

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