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.
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Department of Paediatric Surgery, Rouen University Hospital Charles Nicolle, Rouen, France. lazarcalin@yahoo.fr
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Lechevallier
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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