nodular tumor that grossly resembled a thymoma was found in the anterior mediastinum. It was densely adherent and was removed with some difficulty. The tumor appeared to arise from the thymus ...

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).

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 ...

Background: Primary adenocarcinoma of thymus is extremely rare. Case presentation: This is a case of primary adenocarcinoma with intestinal differentiation and focal mucin production in the thymus.

Ectopic cervical thymus is because of the failure of descent ... the thymic precursor begins its descent to the mediastinum along the thymopharyngeal duct. 2 This duct is in close relationship ...

The thymus accounted for the apparent widened mediastinum seen on the chest radiograph. Intracranial bleeding, identified on a computed tomography scan of her head, accounted for the blood loss. The ...

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 ...

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.

In our case the adenocarcinoma was associated with a large benign thymic cyst with columnar epithelium. It showed no dysplastic change. In our case, the HLA-DRB5-locus in chromosomal region 6p21 ...