title: Unusual late presentation of metastatic extrathoracic thymoma to gastrohepatic lymph node treated by surgical resection.
abstract: In advanced stages, thymic tumors tend to spread locally. Distant metastatic disease is rare. We present the first report of single metastatic abdominal lymph node in a 37-year-old female patient and 5 years after an extrapleural pneumonectomy for stage IV thymoma followed by radiotherapy with no other evidence of abdominal disease successfully treated by robotic surgical resection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY, 10065, USA. Andrea_bille@hotmail.it.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Billè
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sachidananda
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Andre L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Moreira
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Nabil P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Rizk
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision / Q000379:methods*; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012371:Robotics / Q000379:methods*; D013934:Thymectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013945:Thymoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery
keywords: Abdominal lymph node metastasis; Recurrence; Robotic surgery; Thymoma