Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Jun 2024)

Primary glomus tumor of the thymus in a 66-year-old patient

  • Yibing Zang,
  • Ruixing Zhao,
  • Chengquan Ma,
  • Dejun Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-024-02806-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

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Abstract We report a unique case of a 66-year-old man who was incidentally identified to have a mass in the thymus region by computerized tomography scan. CT revealed a well-defined 1.6 × 1 × 0.9 cm thymus mass with moderate uniform enhancement. Thoracoscopic thymectomy was performed, and the pathological diagnosis was primary glomus tumor of the thymus. There were no atypia or malignant histological features, and no primary tumors in other sites. To our knowledge, this is the first case of primary thymic glomus tumor reported in the literature.

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