Abstract:Background
Among anterior mediastinal tumors, a teratoma is known to rupture with growth, but there have been few previous reports about thymoma rupture. We here report a rare case of an invasive thymoma with intrapulmonary and intrathoracic rupture requiring emergency life-saving surgery. To our knowledge, this is the first such case in the literature.
Case presentation
A 56-year-old woman suddenly experienced right precordial pain and hemoptysis. Enhanced computed tom… Show more
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