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Volume 192 - Issue 11

Two in one: more than we bargained for

Authors:  Jimmy Z Shen and Jui T Ho

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 654. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03666.x
Published online: 7 June 2010
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A 61-year-old woman presented for management of a large, toxic multinodular goitre. A decision about therapeutic modality (radioiodine ablation or total thyroidectomy) was facilitated by an incidental finding, on computed tomography, of a large, anterior mediastinal thymoma (Figure, A), confirmed by core biopsy. The patient had no symptoms of tumour compression or paraneoplastic phenomena such as myasthenia gravis. She underwent a total thyroidectomy and resection of the thymoma by median sternotomy. Histopathological examination revealed a completely encapsulated and resected thymoma (stage 1, World Health Organization type B2 [mixed epithelial and lymphoid cells]) measuring 140 × 80 × 45 mm (Figure, B), and a benign multinodular goitre.

A: Sagittal view of a computed tomography scan of the neck and chest showing a large multinodular goitre (black arrow) and a large incidental anterior mediastinal thymoma (white arrows). B: Resected thymoma.

Authors

  • Jimmy Z Shen1
  • Jui T Ho2
  • 1. Department of Endocrinology, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA.

Correspondence: jimmy.shen@health.sa.gov.au

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