Thymic Hyperplasia after Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Endometrioid Ovarian Cancer-A Rare Case Report

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Vakouftsi Alexia- Christina Stamatelopoulos Athanasios Michos Thrasyvoulos Roumpaki Anastasia Chatziantoniou Christos Kalliopi Diamantopoulou Karamanis George Liontos Michalis Gakidis Ioannis Michos Petros

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Vakouftsi Alexia- Christina
General Thoracic Department, of General Hospital of Attica “KAT”, Athens, Greece

A B S T R A C T

We present this case to illustrate the fact that doctors need to be cognizant of the unusual presentation of thymic hyperplasia in patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for endometrioid ovarian cancer to avoid needless investigations and therapies. Furthermore, this case highlights the need for further studies in order to specify the correlation between thymic hyperplasia and the primary malignancy.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Tue 29, Sep 2020
Accepted: Sat 10, Oct 2020
Published: Thu 29, Oct 2020

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© 2023 Vakouftsi Alexia- Christina. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.10.11