Quite often, when talking about creeping thyme people mean 'Magic Carpet' (Thymus serpyllum). It's very low-growing at just 1 to 2 inches tall, evergreen, and can grow up to 12 inches wide. It also ...

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 ...

Survival statistics for thymomas are discussed in Survival rates for thymus cancer. Written by References Developed ... Chapter 70: Diseases of the Pleura and Mediastinum. In: Niederhuber JE, Armitage ...

An enlarged thymus may occur due to thymic hyperplasia, congenital or acquired cysts, epithelial neoplasms – thymolipoma, thymoma, carcinoma, or thymic neuroendocrine tumour (carcinoid) [3]. Among all ...

THE thymus has been called the organ of mystery ... The remaining 17 were for tumors of the anterior mediastinum, 4 of which were associated with myasthenia gravis (Table 2).

lymphoma in a single lymph node or one group of lymph nodes, or an organ of the lymphatic system (such as the thymus) lymphoma in an extranodal ... having bulky disease in the centre of your chest ...

Furthermore, on staging CT scan, an enhancing soft tissue mass was detected in the anterior mediastinum with thymic origin measuring ... 12 Regarding metastasis to the thymus, less data are available ...

7 The thymus was identified in the three vessels as a homogeneous structure in the anterior mediastinum. The transverse diameter of the fetus was measured by placing the ultrasound calipers ...

The thymus is a soft, pinkish-gray gland located behind your breastbone and between your lungs. Doctors call this area of the chest the mediastinum, and it is jam-packed with important structures. In ...

Thymus cancer is also called thymus gland cancer ... This allows the doctor to examine the area in the centre of your chest called the mediastinum. You will have it under a general anaesthetic, so you ...

The thymus or heart is rarely involved with LCH ... Thymoma is also a rare tumor of the mediastinum with an annual age-adjusted incidence of 0.9–2.3 cases per million (2). Therefore, thymoma and LCH ...

In patients with R0 resection (microscopically margin negative resection) or in patients who demonstrate complete radiologic response to therapy, local recurrence in the prevascular mediastinum ...