[A malignant thymoma combined with sarcoidosis]

A case of 69-year-old female of malignant thymoma with sarcoidosis was experienced. Although many diseases such as myasthenia gravis are associated with thymoma, sarcoidosis is a rare thymoma-associated disease. Only one case of thymoma with sarcoidosis was reported all over the world, and our case is the first case in Japan. As thymus is essential for the development of T lymphocytes, thymoma may cause T lymphocytes disorder and sarcoidosis. So, we consider thymoma with sarcoidosis as a syndrome rather than as a spectrum of coincidental disease.