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.
Nakano
Tomoyuki
T
Department of General Thoracic Surgery and Pulmonary Medicine, Jichi Medical University and Saitama Medical Center, 1-3311 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, 329-0498, Japan.
Endo
Shunsuke
S
Tsubochi
Hiroyoshi
H
Nokubi
Mitsuhiro
M
Watanabe
Yasutaka
Y
Koyama
Shinichiro
S
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