Pathogenesis of thymolipoma: report of three cases.
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.
Toyama
T
T
Second Department of Surgery, Nagoya City University Medical School, Japan.
Mizuno
T
T
Masaoka
A
A
Shibata
K
K
Yamakawa
Y
Y
Niwa
H
H
Torii
K
K
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