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Colon carcinoma after thymectomy for myasthenia gravis: report of a case
Kohji Tanakaya1, Eiji Konaga, Hitoshi Takeuchi
1Department of Surgery, Iwakuni National Hospital, Japan.
Surgery Today
|October 12, 2002
Abstract:
A 74-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital with anemia, 4 years after a thymectomy for thymoma associated with myasthenia gravis. A diagnosis of sigmoid colon carcinoma was confirmed, followed by surgical resection. This case is presented to reinforce that physicians should bear in mind the possibility of extrathymic malignancies in patients with thymoma.