TITLE:
Swimming Heart: A Pleural, Pulmonary and Pericardial Disseminated Thymoma
AUTHORS:
Lígia Fernandes, André Rodrigues, Vera Clérigo, Cláudia Rocha, Dora Sargento, Glória Silva
KEYWORDS:
Thymoma, Metastases, Pericardial Effusion, Myasthenia Gravis
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Clinical Diagnostics,
Vol.4 No.4,
November
14,
2014
ABSTRACT: Thymoma is the most common neoplasm of the anterior mediastinum and accounts for one quarter of all mediastinal tumours and half of all anterior mediastinal masses. Pericardial effusion may be present in approximately 20% of cases. This report presents a patient with a previously diagnosed thymoma without surgical indication and with poor response to chemotherapy and radiotherapy who had a pericardial effusion that likely resulted from the malignancy dissemination to pericardium.