Experts call this area your “mediastinum.” It holds your heart and its large vessels, your trachea or windpipe, your esophagus, your thymus gland, and some of your lymph nodes. This surgical ...

Graves' disease with thymus enlargement and hypercalcemia associated ... respectively. MRI of the mediastinum showed a dramatic decrease in the mediastinal mass. We report here on an increase ...

The thymus is a small, delicate bilobed gland located below the manubrium (upper portion of the sternum). It is usually pinkish grey and resides in the mediastinum (space between the lungs) resting on ...

The organ was first mentioned by Galen, who noticed that it is located in the anterior mediastinum and is proportionally largest during infancy. However, Galen wrongly assumed that the thymus ...

It descends to its usual location in the anterior superior mediastinum by the end of the second month of gestation. [1] The mature thymus gland has a pyramidal shape and comprises two incompletely ...

In a study of almost 2,300 adults who underwent chest surgery, removing the thymus gland was associated with higher rates of death and of cancer within the next few years, researchers report in ...

This primary adenocarcinoma of the thymus with intestinal differentiation shows homozygous deletion of part of the HLA- locus in chromosomal region 6p21.32 confirmed by CGH array. It is associated ...

Rapid aging of the thymus linked to decline in free radical defenses Date: August 6, 2015 Source: Cell Press Summary: A critical immune organ called the thymus shrinks rapidly with age, putting ...

The presentation details a new method for creating a transplantable and scalable artificial thymus organoid intended to restore T-cell functionality, which is crucial for immune system health.

A first-of-its kind, a heart-thymus transplant, is a success A pediatric surgery team at Duke University successfully performed a heart transplant and a thymus tissue transplant from the same donor.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified stem cells in the human thymus for the first time. These cells represent a potential new target to understand immune diseases and cancer ...