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- Title
Thymom - vzácná příčina perikardiálního výpotku.
- Authors
CHLUMSKÝ, J.; LISCHKE, R.; STOLZ, A.; ZÁMEČNÍK, J.; MAZANEC, R.
- Abstract
Pericardial effusion may accompany many diseases and its differential diagnosis is broad. The most common causes include acute pericarditis of different etiology, pericardial involvement in systemic diseases, myocardia infarction, malignant pericardial effusion and hypothyrosis. We report a case report of 56-year-old asymptomatic man with a large pericardia effusion and pathological mass in the anterior mediastinum on chest CT examinations with suspected thymoma, Transternal thymectomia and pericardial fenestration was performed, histological examination confirmed thymoma, Thymoma is known for its association with myasthenia gravis and paraneoplastic autoimmune disease, however half of the patients are asymptomatic. It is essentia to distinguish thymoma from aggressive thymic carcinoma Surgical resection is a basic curative procedure and radical removment of thymoma allows long-term survival
- Subjects
PERICARDIAL effusion; HEART diseases; THYMOMA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOGRAPHY
- Publication
General Practitioner / Praktický Lékař, 2013, Vol 93, Issue 3, p125
- ISSN
0032-6739
- Publication type
Article