A rare case of giant thymolipoma
Şenol Ürek1,İrfan Yalçınkaya1,Abdurrahim Gördebil1
Current Thoracic Surgery
2020;5(1):046-049. (27 January 2020)
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Health Sciences, Süreyyapasa Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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Thymolipoma is one of the benign pathologies of the mediastinum that may reach large sizes over
time and even become a giant mass that fills the hemithorax. It may cause respiratory distress and even
failure, and may be accompanied by myasthenia gravis or other clinical conditions. Surgical excision of
the mass provides both diagnosis and treatment.
Keywords :
mediastinum, thymolipoma, surgery