title: Pathogenesis of thymolipoma: report of three cases.
abstract: Three case reports of thymolipoma are herein presented. One patient presented with myasthenia gravis, while the other patients were asymptomatic. The tumors in our cases all had histopathologically different features: case 1, lipoma of the thymus; case 2, involuted thymic hyperplasia; and case 3, typical thymolipoma. The histopathological findings of thymolipoma are discussed in the context of the pathogenesis of thymolipoma.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Nagoya City University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mizuno
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Masaoka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shibata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamakawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Niwa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Torii
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000209:etiology; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D013952:Thymus Hyperplasia / Q000473:pathology; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology