Thymic clear cell carcinoma.
We report a 42-year-old man with a rare thymic clear cell carcinoma. Marked nodal metastases involved right hilar, mediastinal, and left supraclavicular regions. Complete resection including thymothymectomy, cervicomediastinal nodal dissection, and right upper lobectomy with hilar lymphadenectomy was successful. Postoperative chemoradiation therapy was uneventful. The patient had no recurrence or metastasis until brain metastasis occurred 1 year after surgery.
Department of General Thoracic Surgery and Pulmonary Medicine, Jichi Medical University and Saitama Medical Center, 1-3311 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, 329-0498, Japan.
Tomoyuki
T
Nakano
Shunsuke
S
Endo
Hiroyoshi
H
Tsubochi
Mitsuhiro
M
Nokubi
Yasutaka
Y
Watanabe
Shinichiro
S
Koyama
D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary / Q000628:therapy; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D013934:Thymectomy; D013945:Thymoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary / Q000628:therapy; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome