[Primary pericardial thymoma: an unusual etiology of neoplastic pericarditis].
We present a case of a primary pericardic thymoma, revealed by a pericardic effusion. This ectopic localisation is very unusual; neoplastic pericarditis are usually due to metastasis of carcinomas or lymphomas. Sometimes, they are secondary to pericardic invasion by mediastinal malignant thymomas or a metastasis of thymomas. Our patient presented a single pericardic localisation of thymoma without any other site. We discuss ectopic localisations of thymic tissue and thymomas and the diagnostic usefulness of the MIC 2 antibody.
Ben Hami
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B
Service d'Anatomie et Cytologie Pathologiques B, CHRU Pontchaillou, Rennes.
Caulet-Maugendre
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S
Valla
J
J
Heresbach-Le Berre
N
N
Kernec
J
J
Laurent
M
M
Ramée
M P
MP
D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D010496:Pericardium; D013945:Thymoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology
Thymome primitif du péricarde: une étiologie inhabituelle de péricardite néoplasique.