The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 50, 469-470, Copyright © 1990 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Fatal ectopic thymoma
JD Jansen and FE Johnson
Department of Surgery, St. Louis University Medical Center, Missouri 63110-0250.
We present the case of a patient who died of thymoma-induced immunological
dysfunction. The neoplasm was unsuspected antemortem because of its
location adjacent to the right hemidiaphragm. This appears to be the most
caudad ectopic position yet encountered for a thymoma.