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Two cases of malignant thymoma presenting as an anterior neck mass and misdiagnosed as thyroid carcinoma

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Two cases of malignant thymoma presenting as an anterior neck mass are reported. Both tumors were initially diagnosed as thyroid carcinoma. The lesions were not ectopic thymomas and had invaded the thyroid gland from the mediastinum. Careful preoperative examination is important to distinguish thyroid cancer from invasive thymoma.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Osaka National Hospital, 2-1-4 Hoenzaka, Chuo-ku, Osaka 540, Japan Tel. +81-6-6942-1331; Fax +81-6-6943-6467 e-mail: tkoba@onh.go.jp, , , , , , JP

    T. Kobayashi

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Itami City Hospital, Itami, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Hideki Asakawa

  3. Second Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Kazunori Taniguchi, Yoshifumi Komoike, Yasuhiro Tamaki, Naohiro Tomita & Morito Monden

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  1. T. Kobayashi
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Received: December 17, 1997 / Accepted: October 15, 1998

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Kobayashi, T., Asakawa, H., Taniguchi, K. et al. Two cases of malignant thymoma presenting as an anterior neck mass and misdiagnosed as thyroid carcinoma. Int J Clin Oncol 4, 118–120 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s101470050039

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