- Case Report
- Two Cases of Thymic Carcinoma in Childhood
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Young Ah Lee, Jin Young Park, Hye Lim Jung, Moon Soo Par, Hyoung Soo Choi, Eun Sun Yoo, Hyo Seop Ah
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 1999;42(3):424-429. Published online March 15, 1999
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Thymic carcinoma is a malignant neoplasm arising from the thymic epithelium, and is known to be extremely uncommon in the pediatric population. The tumor is clinically highly aggressive with frequent local intrathoracic spread and extrathoracic metastases detected in the majority of patients at initial diagnosis and often shows minimal or no response to conventional chemotherapy. We experienced two pediatric patients... |
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