RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Microscopic thymoma and myasthenia gravis.
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 682
OP 683
DO 10.1136/jcp.48.7.682
VO 48
IS 7
A1 F Puglisi
A1 N Finato
A1 L Mariuzzi
A1 C Marchini
A1 G Floretti
A1 C A Beltrami
YR 1995
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/48/7/682.abstract
AB A rare case of microscopically sized thymoma is described in a 56 year old man suffering from myasthenia gravis. Histological examination of the surgically removed thymus showed the presence of several epithelial thymoma-like islands. As controls, 100 thymuses obtained from consecutive necropsies were sampled: 4% of these cases showed epithelial islands. This case is further proof that "microscopic thymoma" is a true pathological entity and suggests that every thymus removed from myasthenic patients in which there is no macroscopic evidence of thymoma should be examined microscopically on serial sections.