Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy in a child with thymic carcinoma: an unusual presentation in childhood.
We report here a case of intrathoracic undifferentiated carcinoma in the thymus with hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy in a 13-year-old girl. The association of the two conditions is very rare.
Ilhan
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Department of Pediatric Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Kutluk
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Göğüş
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Besim
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D000293:Adolescent; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000209:etiology*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*