title: Recurrent thymoma with a pleural dissemination invading the intervertebral foramen.
abstract: We report a rare case of recurrent thymoma with pleural dissemination invading the intervertebral foramen. A woman with Masaoka's stage IVa thymoma with myasthenia gravis (MG) underwent macroscopically complete resection. After 45 months, she developed back pain. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest demonstrated a mass in the right thoracic cavity invading the intervertebral foramen between thoracic vertebrae 10 and 11. She underwent complete resection of the tumor and postoperative radiotherapy. The resected specimen was histologically diagnosed as a pleural dissemination from thymoma. There has been no local recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, Institute of Health Bioscience, the University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Toba
authors.forename: Kazuya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Hiromitsu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takizawa
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tangoku
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology*; D013945:Thymoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed