[A clinicopathological study of mediastinal tumors].
One hundred and fifty-eight cases of mediastinal tumors have been studied clinicopathologically, based on patients of Nagasaki University Hospital from 1961 to 1984. Of these tumors, 29.7% were thymic tumors, 23.4% neurogenic tumors, and 21.5% were germ cell tumors, the frequencies of which reflected the same tendency as other such reports in Japan. Thirty-three cases were malignant tumors. Among them, thymomas were the most common (48.5%) as Wada et al. have reported. Extrathoracic metastases have observed in 2 thymomas. Thymomas associated with myasthenia gravis were seen in 6 cases in which 5 patients are still alive.
Iseki
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Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki Univ. School of Med.
Tsuda
N
N
Shimada
O
O
Kishikawa
M
M
Yamaoka
N
N
Kawahara
K
K
Ayabe
K
K
Tomita
M
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000150:complications; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D009380:Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis; D013945:Thymoma / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology