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Prabhsimranjot Singh1, Ankur Sinha2, Sonali Malhotra3
1Department of Hematology/Oncology, Maimonides Cancer Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
World Journal of Oncology
|November 18, 2017
Abstract:
Thymic carcinomas are rare aggressive cancers with limited clinical trial data. Its usual treatment is surgical resection with variable response to chemotherapy and radiation. It usually presents as anterior mediastinal mass with late sequela of metastases to the lymph nodes, pleura and bones. We present of thymic carcinoma with a rare initial presentation of vertebral metastases causing spinal cord compression.

