You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Correspondence
A case of rapidly enlarging unilocular thymic cyst
  1. H Nomori1,
  2. H Horio1,
  3. K Suemasu1,
  4. H Orikasa2,
  5. K Yamazaki2,
  6. K Nakano3
  1. 1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Saiseikai Central Hospital, 1-4-17 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073, Japan;hnomori@qk9.so-net.ne.jp
  2. 2Department of Pathology, Saiseikai Central Hospital
  3. 3Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Senbai Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.55.8.636

    Statistics from Altmetric.com

      Request Permissions

      If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

      Thymic cysts occur relatively rarely and account for only about 3% of all anterior mediastinal masses.1 Although thymic cysts usually grow very slowly, there have been three reported cases of unilocular thymic cysts that enlarged rapidly as a result of intracystic haemorrhage: two cases occurred in children with aplastic anaemia and one occurred in a 13 year old boy with no other symptoms.2,3 Here, we present a case of a unilocular thymic cyst, which appeared within one year, was associated with chronic inflammation, and had findings different from the cases reported previously.

      The patient was a 63 year old man, who had been well with no apparent symptoms of disease. There was no history of trauma. He complained of dull anterior chest pain in April 2001, and a chest x ray film showed an abnormal shadow in the left mediastinum. A chest x ray that had been taken one year before for a routine medical examination had …

      View Full Text