Hyperplasia of the thymic gland in a patient with Graves' disease.
A tumor-like lesion in the anterior mediastinum was recognized in a 21-year-old female patient with Graves' disease. A CT examination and MRI suggested a thymoma. A subtotal thyroidectomy and a total thymectomy were therefore performed simultaneously. A pathological study of the thymic mass showed thymic hyperplasia. These findings suggest that an enlarged anterior mediastinal mass in a Graves' disease could thus sometimes turn out to be thymic hyperplasia and not a thymoma.
Inoue
K
K
Department of Surgery II, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
Sugio
K
K
Inoue
T
T
Ishida
T
T
Sugimachi
K
K
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D013945:Thymoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis