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Case Report

A case of thymic basaloid carcinoma with multiple lung metastasis and pleural dissemination

Hiroshi Oginoa  Akihiko Ikedaa  Shuhei Ideguchia  Rikiya Koketsua  Kimio Hashimotob 

aDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Nishi-Kobe Medical Center
bDepartment of Pathology, Nishi-Kobe Medical Center

ABSTRACT

A 71-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of persistent right pleuritic chest pain. A computed tomography (CT) showed an anterior mediastinal tumor with right pleural dissemination and multiple pulmonary metastasis. Basaloid carcinoma was diagnosed by video-assisted thoracic surgery biopsy of the right pleural lesions. The thymus lesion was considered to be primary, according to the findings of positron emission tomography and CT. Five different regimens of combined cytotoxic agents based on lung cancer chemotherapy were given, but none were effective. However, the patient has been alive without serious complications two years and seven months since the disease was diagnosed. Thymic basaloid carcinoma is an extremely rare disease, and only 40 cases have been reported.

KEYWORDS

Basaloid carcinoma  Thymic cancer 

Received 19 Dec 2013 / Accepted 14 Feb 2014

AJRS, 3(4): 575-579, 2014

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