Open AccessA giant mediastinal thymolipoma: a rare pathological entity
Author(s) -
Kailash Chand Sharma,
Yogendra Singh Bhakuni,
Laleng Mawia Darlong,
Sunil Pasricha,
Ajay Kumar Dewan,
Rashika Chand,
Pranay Goswami,
Suhas Kodasoge Rajappa
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-018-0700-9
Subject(s) - medicine , pathological , mediastinum , adipose tissue , anterior mediastinum , soft tissue , lipoma , cardiothoracic surgery , pathology , histopathological examination , radiology , surgery
Thymolipoma is a rarely seen benign pathological entity of anterior mediastinum and constitutes of around 2-7% of thymic tumors. They usually present as soft tissue mass composed of mature adipose tissue and thymic tissue, which are clinically silent most of the time, i.e., the reason they reach to a larger dimension before diagnosis. Preoperaative diagnosis is always challenging for the thymolipoma. We wish to report a case of the soft tissue mass of anterior mediastinum in a young male, which on surgical exploration and final histopathological examination was diagnosed as thymolipoma.