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Invasive thymoma with intracaval growth extending and directly invading the right atrium
N Minato1, K Rikitake, H Ohnishi
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Fukuoka Tokushukai Hospital, Kasuga-city, Japan.
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|April 25, 2000
Abstract:
We report an extremely rare case of an invasive thymoma with intracaval growth extending and directly invading the right atrium. Enbloc excision of the tumor with lobectomy and combined resection of the right atrium, and graft replacement of the superior vena cava were successfully performed during cardiopulmonary bypass. Invasive thymoma with this type of intracaval and intra-atrial progression is extremely rare.