thymoma/vomiting

A 63 yo female was hospitalized with a 2 week history of vomiting, epigastric pain, anorexia and weight loss. She had an incidental finding of left anterior upper mediastinal mass on Chest Xray and TSP of 2.2 gm% and globulins of 1.2 gm% along with endobronchial larvae of Ascaris lumbricoides and

This study aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of a combination of paclitaxel and cisplatin/carboplatin for the treatment of advanced thymic carcinoma. Thirty-seven patients (23 men and 14 women, median age 47 years, performance status score ≤2) with pathologically or cytologically diagnosed

OBJECTIVE To report the use of low-pressure carbon dioxide insufflation during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for resection of a noninvasive thymoma in a cat with secondary myasthenia gravis. METHODS Clinical case report. METHODS Client-owned cat. METHODS An 11-year-old castrated male domestic

A 10-year-old captive male Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) presented with acute onset collapse, vomiting and dyspnoea, preceded by a 6-month period of progressive muscle wasting. Following humane destruction, post-mortem examination revealed a large multilobulated mass in the cranial

In 1982 there were four reports of cisplatin-induced remissions of invasive thymoma. These observations led the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) to conduct a Phase II trial of cisplatin (50 mg/m2 intravenously every 3 weeks). During a 4-year period 24 patients were entered on this trial; 3

BACKGROUND Acute gastric volvulus (GV) is a rare disease with high mortality rate often associated with anatomic abnormalities. Thymoma is the most common neoplasm located in the anterior mediastinum. There is no reported relationship between thymoma and GV. Here we reported a case of thymoma with

BACKGROUND Thymic carcinoma is a rare anterior mediastinal neoplasm. It is more invasive and has a poorer prognosis than ordinary thymoma. Complete curative resection is frequently impossible to achieve because of extensive invasion or metastasis at diagnosis. The role of systemic chemotherapy and

Two patients presented with abdominal pain, recurrent vomiting, weight loss, and constipation secondary to intestinal pseudo-obstruction. Both patients had symptoms and signs of myasthenia gravis, acetylcholine receptor antibodies, and thymoma. In one patient inflammatory cell infiltrates and

A cranial mediastinal mass was observed radiographically in two 5-year-old adult male ferrets (Mustela putorius furo), both with histories of chronic episodic vomiting, dyspnea, and lethargy. Malignant lymphoma, a common neoplasm observed in ferrets, was considered the most likely diagnosis.

Malignant thymomas usually proliferate invasively and rarely metastasize to other organs. Since the metastases occur predominantly to the liver and kidneys, there have been only 16 cases with metastatic spreads of malignant thymomas to the central nervous system reported in the literature. A

Thymic carcinoma with central nervous system involvement is very rare in children. A 27-month-old girl presented with a unilateral squint, vomiting, and behavioral changes. Imaging studies showed a silent anterior mediastinal mass and a large metastatic mass at the base of the skull. Biopsy of the

An anterior mediastinal cystic lesion in an 11-year-old mongrel dog was examined. The dog showed dysbasia and vomiting due to megaoesophagus, and anterior mediastinal round mass lesion, approximately 35 mm in diameter, was found by X ray. Based on clinical examinations, the dog was diagnosed as

OBJECTIVE To evaluate single-agent ifosfamide in the treatment of invasive thymoma. METHODS Fifteen patients (eight male and seven female) with histologically confirmed invasive thymoma were treated. The median age was 48 years (range, 23 to 76 years). Four patients had stage III disease, seven

From 1990 to 1997, 16 consecutive patients with stage III and IVa invasive thymoma were treated in a single institution with primary chemotherapy consisting in adriamycin (40 mg m(-2)), cisplatin (50 mg m(-2)) administered intravenously on day 1, vincristine (0.6 mg m(-2)) on day 2 and

BACKGROUND Locally advanced malignant thymomas are usually radically resectable in about 60% of stage III but hardly ever in stage IVA. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery could improve both resection rate and curability. Cisplatin containing regimens have repeatedly been found to be highly