Open AccessGiant thymolipoma
Author(s) -
Е. О. Родионов,
С. В. Миллер,
N. V. Vasilyev,
С. А. Тузиков,
И. Г. Фролова,
O. I. Kovalev,
A. A. Silantyeva,
С. И. Пономарева
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik hirurgii im. i.i. grekova/vestnik hirurgii imeni i.i. grekova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2686-7370
pISSN - 0042-4625
DOI - 10.24884/0042-4625-2020-179-3-75-79
Subject(s) - asymptomatic , medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , pathological , anterior mediastinum , radiology , surgical excision , benign tumor , surgery , lipoma , mediastinum , pathology
Thymolipoma is a rare benign pathological tumor of the anterior mediastinum and accounts for about 2–9 % of thymus tumors. Tumor is usually represented as soft tissue consisting of adipose and thymic tissues. Because of the asymptomatic presentation, patients are often diagnosed with a large tumor. Gigantism of the tumor due to long-term and progressive compression of adjacent organs and anatomical structures of this region can lead to dysfunction, and in some cases, to a complete block of their activity, which is fraught with a fatal outcome. Preoperative diagnosis is always a difficult task due to the lower sensitivity of CT scans and biopsies. The main method of treatment is radical surgical excision. The article presents a clinical case of a 51-year-old patient with a giant tumor of the left hemithorax with a long-term asymptomatic presentation, who was diagnosed with thymolipoma after surgical excision and final histopathological examination.