TY - JOUR
T1 - Hepatic lesion of invasive thymoma
T2 - Possibility of direct invasion
AU - Okamoto, Tatsuro
AU - Teruya, Takao
AU - Nishiyama, Kenichi
AU - Maruyama, Riichiroh
AU - Shoji, Fumihiro
AU - Wataya, Hiroshi
AU - Ichinose, Yukito
PY - 2007/8/1
Y1 - 2007/8/1
N2 - Thymomas grow slowly but tend to invade the surrounding tissue. We herein report four patients with hepatic lesions of thymomas, which were thought to have directly invaded the liver. These patients had received combined modality treatments throughout the clinical course, and the hepatic lesions appeared a long time after the initial treatment - 11.8 years on average. In these patients, the prognoses after the appearance of hepatic invasion were poor. Appropriate local control in the early stages of the clinical course may therefore be essential for preventing the extrathoracic spread of invasive thymoma.
AB - Thymomas grow slowly but tend to invade the surrounding tissue. We herein report four patients with hepatic lesions of thymomas, which were thought to have directly invaded the liver. These patients had received combined modality treatments throughout the clinical course, and the hepatic lesions appeared a long time after the initial treatment - 11.8 years on average. In these patients, the prognoses after the appearance of hepatic invasion were poor. Appropriate local control in the early stages of the clinical course may therefore be essential for preventing the extrathoracic spread of invasive thymoma.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10147-006-0649-3
DO - 10.1007/s10147-006-0649-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 17701011
AN - SCOPUS:34547882764
VL - 12
SP - 300
EP - 302
JO - International Journal of Clinical Oncology
JF - International Journal of Clinical Oncology
SN - 1341-9625
IS - 4
ER -