Two-year disease remission of an unresectable basaloid thymic carcinoma with second line chemotherapy drugs: report of a case

The Pan African Medical Journal

Felix Vigovich¹  Silvia Quadrelli²  Agustín Buero³  Leonardo German Pankl³ 

[1] Department of Pathology, Buenos Aires British Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina;Department of Pneumonology, Buenos Aires British Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina;Department of Thoracic Surgery, Buenos Aires British Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

关键词: mediastinal tumor;    thymus;    basaloid carcinoma;   

DOI  :  10.11604/pamj.2019.33.53.12401

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Thymic carcinomas are extremely infrequent neoplasms (15% of all thymic epithelial tumors). Basaloid carcinoma is a peculiar tumor that represents no more than 2% of those infrequent thymic carcinomas. Surgical excision is the recommended treatment. As it's extremely rare, there is no evidence of the impact of different modalities of treatment. There are no reported cases that did not include surgery as part of their management. We herein present a case of an unresectable thymic basaloid carcinoma treated only with concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy that obtained a complete remission and free of disease after 2 years.

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