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Case Reports

Ossifying Thymoma Clinically Presenting With Peripheral T-Cell Lymphocytosis

^a Department of Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
^b Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Accepted for publication March 30, 2009.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Hsuan-Ying Huang, Department of Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, 123, Ta-Pei Rd, Niao-Sung Township, Kaohsiung, 83301, Taiwan (Email: a120600310{at}yahoo.com).

We believe there has been only one ossifying thymoma reported in the English literature. We herein reported another such case with additional peculiar presentation of peripheral T-cell lymphocytosis. A 62-year-old woman was incidentally found to have an anterior mediastinal tumor during a medical check-up, which was surgically resected 42 months later and histopathologically confirmed to be a type B1 thymoma with stromal ossification. Fifty months after tumor removal, this patient remains alive and well without relapsed disease.