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Ann Thorac Surg 1990;50:469-470
© 1990 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Fatal ectopic thymoma

James D. Jansen, MD, Frank E. Johnson, MD*

Department of Surgery, St. Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Accepted for publication March 26, 1990.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Johnson, Department of Surgery, St. Louis University Medical Center, 3635 Vista at Grand, PO Box 15250, St. Louis, MO 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.






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