title: [A case report of widely recurrent carcinoid tumor of the thymus].
abstract: We performed wide resection of recurrent carcinoid tumor of thymus. A 62-year-old male patient admitted to our department because of swelling of anterior chest wall. He had received extirpation of thymic carcinoid tumor 5 years ago and he was pointed out large mass formation in anterior mediastinum before admission. Wide resection of tumor including pericardium, chest wall, left lung and left brachiocephalic vein was performed. Left brachiocephalic vein was reconstructed and pericardium was replaced with Gore-Tex patch. The carcinoid tumor of thymus sometimes invade to adjacent organs and is apt to recur long time after first operation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Okayama University Medical School.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ichiba
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aoe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aosasa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kida
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsuura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Date
mesh_terms: D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*