Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine

Brief Case Report

A Rare Case of Mesothelioma Showing Micropapillary and Small Cell Differentiation with Aggressive Behavior: Yoon Jin Cha, Binnari Kim, Joungho Han, Chin A Yi, Jae Ill Zo; Korean J Pathol. 2014;48(6):466-468. Published online December 31, 2014; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4132/KoreanJPathol.2014.48.6.466

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Original Articles

Fine needle aspiration cytology of malignant thymoma: two cases of invasive thymoma and thymic carcinoma.: Mee Yon Cho, Young Nyun Park, Kwang Gil Lee; Korean J Cytopathol. 1991;2(1):36-42.

Abstract PDF: We report 4 cases of malignant thymoma which were composed of 2 cases of invasive thymoma and 2 cases of thymic carcinoma. The cytologic findings of invasive thymoma were similar to those of benign thymoma. The distinctive cytologic features of thymic carcinoma were necrotic background, irregular clusters and individually scattered arrangement of anaplastic epithelial cells, and some scattered mature small lymphocytes. These findings may be found in the Hodgkin'slymphoma, seminoma, and metastatic squamous cell carcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma, and large cell carcinoma of the. lung. But, the feature of irregular clustering of anaplastic epithelial cell having scanty cytoplasm was different from Hodgkin'slymphoma and seminoma. Clinical and radiologic findings as well as cytologic finding were helpful in differential diagnosis of thymic carcinoma from metastatic carcinoma.

Thymoma: A clinicopathologic analysis of 66 cases.: Weon Seo Park, Seong Hoe Park, Yong Il Kim; Korean J Pathol. 1992;26(4):372-380.

Abstract PDF: A total of 66 cases of thymoma(57 surgically resected cases and 9 incisional biopsy cases) were reviewed with an attempt to correlate pathomorphologic features and clinical presentations. Criteria of benign or invasive thymoma were primarily determined by operative clinical and pathologic findings. Of them, 21 cases were invasive thymomas. The mean age of patients at the time of surgery was 47 years and it occurred largely in the sixth decade. Myasthenia gravis was accompanied in 29 cases(43%). One patient died during folow-up period, and five of the remainder suffered from recurrence. Microscopically, mixed type was the most common one(33 cases), being followed by predominantly epithelial type(17 cases) and predominantly lymphocytic type(16 cases). Thirty four cases of thymomas were cortical type, 29 mixed type, and the remaining 3 medullary type. None of the histologic type were significantly correlated with tumor invasiveness, Myasthenia gravis was more frequently associated with mixed and cortical type, respectively.

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