Secondary localisation of an intra-thoracic benign mesenchymoma in the fossa poplitea: a rare paediatric case.
Thymomas are tumours that rarely occur in children, are almost invariably benign, and are usually discovered incidentally in the anterior mediastinum on chest X-rays. Whereas in adults these tumours are often associated with myasthenia gravis and other autoimmune diseases, this occurrence is very rare in the paediatric population. Multiple localisation and/or extra-thoracic recurrence of thymomas in children also appears to be exceptional with no reported cases in the English literature. We report one rare paediatric case.
Department of Paediatric Surgery, Rouen University Hospital Charles Nicolle, Rouen, France. lazarcalin@yahoo.fr
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D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008637:Mesenchymoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013945:Thymoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery