title: Thoracoscopic resection of middle mediastinal noninvasive thymoma: report of a case.
abstract: We performed thoracoscopic resection of a middle mediastinal noninvasive thymoma in a 69-year-old woman. Chest computed tomography on admission showed a tumor, 75 x 48 x 32 mm in size, and pathological examination revealed a spindle-cell, noninvasive thymoma, of type A according to the World Health Organization classification, and stage I according to the Masaoka staging system. Thymomas are prone to ectopic occurrence, and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of middle mediastinum tumors.
authors: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Tottori University Hospital, Yonago, Tottori 683-8504, Japan.
authors: Hiroshige
authors: H
authors: Nakamura
authors: Yoshin
authors: Y
authors: Adachi
authors: Shinji
authors: S
authors: Fujioka
authors: Ken
authors: K
authors: Miwa
authors: Tomohiro
authors: T
authors: Haruki
authors: Yuji
authors: Y
authors: Taniguchi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D013945:Thymoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*
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