True thymic hyperplasia: an unrecognised cause of cardiac murmur?
Anterior mediastinal neoplasms are known to be causes of pressure symptoms on the heart and great vessels. This report describes a case of true thymic hyperplasia, a rare non-neoplastic condition, and speculates that pressure from this hyperplastic thymus may have produced a cardiac murmur.
Williams
D J
DJ
Department of Pathology, University of Leeds, UK.
D000328:Adult; D006326:Heart Auscultation; D006337:Heart Murmurs; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013952:Thymus Hyperplasia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology