title: Thymic epithelial hyperplasia with nodular sclerosis Hodgkin's disease.
abstract: We report a case of simultaneous occurrence of thymic epithelial hyperplasia and Hodgkin's disease. A computed tomographic scan of the chest revealed a tumor in the anterior mediastinum and conspicuous swelling of lymph nodes in the upper and lower mediastinum. The anterior mediastinal tumor was histologically diagnosed as thymic epithelial hyperplasia, while the lymph nodes were nodular sclerosis Hodgkin's disease. Our findings suggest that thymic hyperplasia might be directly involved in the pathology of at least some cases of Hodgkin's disease.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Medicine, Okayama University Medical School, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
authors.forename: Wataru
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Kensuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kojima
authors.forename: Kumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nanba
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshino
authors.forename: Katsuji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shinagawa
authors.forename: Fumihiko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ishimaru
authors.forename: Kazuma
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Niiya
authors.forename: Mitsune
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanimoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000473:pathology; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D016539:Reed-Sternberg Cells; D012074:Remission Induction; D012598:Sclerosis; D013952:Thymus Hyperplasia / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed