title: [A long-term surviving patient with invasive thymoma who underwent radiotherapy and/or resection for chest wall, intrathoracic and intrapelvic recurrent tumors].
abstract: A 49-year-old woman with myasthenia gravis who underwent left panpleuropneumonectomy for an invasive thymoma that disseminated through the left thoracic cavity. After six year, radiotherapy was conducted on the recurrent tumor in the left anterior chest wall. Two years later, the recurrent tumors in the intrapelvic and intrathoracic cavities were resected. It was thought that long-term survival was obtained by combining radiotherapy and surgical treatment in view of the patient's general condition, and of the recurrent invasive thymoma present in this case.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Kagoshima University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Hidehiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Masakazu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yanagi
authors.forename: Masaharu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawabata
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aikou
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000150:complications; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary*; D010994:Pleura / Q000601:surgery; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D017741:Survivors; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013945:Thymoma / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*