Thymic neoplasia in two male siblings.
Thymic tumors are uncommon, and malignant variants of such neoplasms are rare. Hence, the association of two siblings with aggressive tumors of the thymus is not likely to be a coincidence. We report on two brothers with thymic epithelial neoplasms, one being a thymic carcinoma and the other an invasive spindle cell thymoma with associated hypogammaglobulinemia.
D000328:Adult; D000361:Agammaglobulinemia / Q000150:complications; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013945:Thymoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure