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THYMOMA AND HODGKIN'S DISEASE OF THE THYMUS
Author(s) -
Nickels Juhar,
Franssila Kaarle,
Hjelt Lars
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section a pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-4184
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1973.tb00469.x
Subject(s) - thymoma , pathology , thymus neoplasm , medicine , disease
Fourteen epithelial thymomas and eight granulomatous thymomas were studied in order to clarify the clinicopathological relationship of these diseases. The age distribution, histological picture and clinical course of granulomatous thymoma were quite different from those of epithelial thymoma but similar to those of the nodular sclerosing type of Hodgkin's disease. Granulomatous thymoma should therefore be distinguished from epithelial thymoma and perhaps called Hodgkin's disease of the thymus.