Thymic lesions. Experience with computed tomography in 24 patients

The value of computed tomography in the treatment of 24 patients with thymic lesions was analyzed. These included 21 patients with thymomas, and one each with thymic carcinoid, thymic lymphoma, and thymic cyst. Twelve patients were seen before therapy and 12 after treatment elsewhere. Computed tomography gave additional information in 14 of 24 cases and management was altered in two. The presence or absence of invasion of adjacent structures was predicted in 16 of 17 patients in whom computed tomographic-surgical correlation was available.