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01-01-2019 | Case Report

A giant mediastinal thymolipoma: a rare pathological entity

Authors: Kailash Chand Sharma, Yogendra Singh Bhakuni, Laleng Mawia Darlong, Sunil Pasricha, Ajay Kumar Dewan, Rashika Chand, Priyanka Goswami, Suhas Kodasoge Rajappa

Published in: Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | Issue 1/2019

Abstract

Thymolipoma is a rarely seen benign pathological entity of anterior mediastinum and constitutes of around 2–7% of thymic tumors. They usually present as soft tissue mass composed of mature adipose tissue and thymic tissue, which are clinically silent most of the time, i.e., the reason they reach to a larger dimension before diagnosis. Preoperaative diagnosis is always challenging for the thymolipoma. We wish to report a case of the soft tissue mass of anterior mediastinum in a young male, which on surgical exploration and final histopathological examination was diagnosed as thymolipoma.

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Title: A giant mediastinal thymolipoma: a rare pathological entity
Authors: Kailash Chand Sharma
Yogendra Singh Bhakuni
Laleng Mawia Darlong
Sunil Pasricha
Ajay Kumar Dewan
Rashika Chand
Priyanka Goswami
Suhas Kodasoge Rajappa
Publication date: 01-01-2019
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Published in: Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0970-9134
Electronic ISSN: 0973-7723
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-018-0700-9

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