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Yuuki Kou1, Nobuhisa Yamazaki1, Yasuto Sakaguchi1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Osaka Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports
|January 10, 2025
Abstract:
A 58-year-old woman underwent an extended thymectomy and left upper lobectomy subsequent to induction chemoradiotherapy for advanced thymic carcinoma. The pathologic stage of the tumor was ypT0 N0 M0 stage 0. Six months after surgery, she presented with edema in her left arm and left breast. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the chest revealed no signs of cancer recurrence or arterial or vascular occlusion. Consequently, she was diagnosed with lymphedema.

