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Thymic metastasis from prostatic carcinoma: report of a case
S Hayashi1, Y Hamanaka, T Sueda
1First Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
Surgery Today
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
The thymus is an important organ involved in cell-mediated immunological function, and to our knowledge, there has never been a case of thymic metastasis reported. We recently examined a 65-year-old man who presented at our department with a cough and shortness of breath on exertion. He had a history of prostatic carcinoma for which he had undergone an orchiectomy 11 years previously. Investigations disclosed a mediastinal tumor, 14 x 9 cm in size, and histological examination of the resected tumor confirmed a diagnosis of thymic metastasis from prostatic carcinoma.