Case Reports
December 30, 2005
Vol. 63 No. 4 (2005): Pulmonary series
https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2005.625

Ectopic thymoma simulating a pericardial cyst

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Ectopic thymoma, pericardial mass, chest imaging
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G. Caramori
crm@unife.it
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, University of Ferrara, Italy.
N. Calia
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, University of Ferrara, Italy.
C. Pasquini
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, University of Ferrara, Italy.
O. Arar
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, University of Ferrara, Italy.
F. Ravenna
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, University of Ferrara, Italy.
I. Guzzinati
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, University of Ferrara, Italy.
A. Boniotti
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, University of Ferrara, Italy.
L. Cavazzini
Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Diagnostica, Sezione di Anatomia, Istologia e Citologia Patologica, University of Ferrara, Italy.
A. Ciaccia
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, University of Ferrara, Italy.
G. Cavallesco
Sezione di Chirurgia Toracica, University of Ferrara, Italy.
A. Papi
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, University of Ferrara, Italy.
We present a case of a 53 year old man with a thymoma near the pericardium, a rare ectopic localisation of thymoma. A round radiodensity found at the right cardiophrenic angle was initially suspected at the echocardiography to be a pericardial cyst. The diagnosis of thymoma was made only after histopathological examination of the surgically re-sected lesion.

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“Ectopic Thymoma Simulating a Pericardial Cyst”. 2005. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 63 (4). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2005.625.