The Thymic Origin of Hodgkin's Disease

Ad, Thomson

doi:10.1038/bjc.1955.4

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“…On the basis of the frequent thymus involvement and the similarity of Reed-Stern berg cells to certain cellular elements of the embryonic thymus, Thomson proposed a thymic origin of Hodgkin's disease some 10 years ago (200). This theory has lost favor in recent years, but in view of the thymus system defi ciency that has since been defined, it seems worthwhile to re-evaluate this possibility.…”

Section: Immunological Diseases Involving Primarily the Thymus Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of the Thymus and Other Central Lymphoid Tissues in Immunological Disease

Cooper¹,

Gabrielsen²,

Ra³

1967

Annu. Rev. Med.

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Section: Immunological Diseases Involving Primarily the Thymus Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of the Thymus and Other Central Lymphoid Tissues in Immunological Disease

Cooper¹,

Gabrielsen²,

Ra³

1967

Annu. Rev. Med.

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“…Whereas Lattes accepted the concept of granulomatous thymoma on the basis of Lowenhaupt's (or Ewing's, or Haagensen's) tenet that it resembles Hodgkin's disease but is really different from it, Thomson21 drew a different and quite extraordinary conclusion from essentially the same set of data. He agreed with the notion that the disease in question was a primary thymic neoplasm; but because he could not distinguish it on morphologic grounds from Hodgkin's disease at other sites, he inferred that Hodgkin's disease represented "a metastatic dissemination of [the] more malignant varieties of granulomatous thymomas."…”

Section: The Concept Of Granulomatous Thymomamentioning

confidence: 99%

Lowenhaupt's embryology-based classification of thymic tumors and the concept of granulomatous thymoma

Rosaí¹

1998

Cancer

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"Tumors of the Thymus in Relation to the Thymic Epithelial Anlage," an article by Elizabeth Lowenhaupt published in Cancer in 1948, proposed a new classification of primary thymic neoplasms based on the embryologic development of the normal thymus and introduced the concept of "granulomatous thymoma," later expanded by the same author in this journal. The proposed classification failed to gain acceptance, and "granulomatous thymoma" proved to be Hodgkin's disease of the thymus.

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“…This seems improbable since the lesion, unlike other thymomas, responds better to irradiation than to surgery and has never been associated with myasthenia gravis. Thompson (1955) (Carbone et al, 1971). She was given postthe upper lobe branch of the left pulmonary artery.…”

Section: Case Historymentioning

confidence: 99%