TY - JOUR
T1 - Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the thymus
T2 - report of a case
AU - Kinoshita, Fumio
AU - Shoji, Fumihiro
AU - Takada, Kazuki
AU - Toyokawa, Gouji
AU - Okamoto, Tatsuro
AU - Yano, Tokujiro
AU - Oda, Yoshinao
AU - Maehara, Yoshihiko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, The Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery.
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - Thymic mucinous adenocarcinoma is a very rare neoplasm. This tumor has a poor prognosis and its treatment is not established. In addition, the existence of KRAS mutations of thymic mucinous adenocarcinoma is still unknown, despite these mutations are common in lung mucinous adenocarcinoma. We present the case of a 79-year-old woman with primary thymic mucinous adenocarcinoma. Therefore, we reviewed clinico-pathological features of thymic mucinous adenocarcinoma in details and analyzed KRAS gene mutations of the present case.
AB - Thymic mucinous adenocarcinoma is a very rare neoplasm. This tumor has a poor prognosis and its treatment is not established. In addition, the existence of KRAS mutations of thymic mucinous adenocarcinoma is still unknown, despite these mutations are common in lung mucinous adenocarcinoma. We present the case of a 79-year-old woman with primary thymic mucinous adenocarcinoma. Therefore, we reviewed clinico-pathological features of thymic mucinous adenocarcinoma in details and analyzed KRAS gene mutations of the present case.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11748-017-0781-1
DO - 10.1007/s11748-017-0781-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 28474330
AN - SCOPUS:85018724113
SN - 1863-6705
VL - 66
SP - 111
EP - 115
JO - General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
JF - General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
IS - 2
ER -