Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
Ethanol Sclerosis: One of the Best Treatments for Thymic Cyst in Very Elderly Patients?
Yoshifumi HIRANOToshio SHIMADAYoshihisa KINOSHITAYo MURAKAMIKanako KOBAYASHIHiroyuki YOSHITOMIJun KITAMURAKazuya SANOKazuaki TANABEYutaka ISHIBASHIRinji MURAKAMI
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1997 Volume 36 Issue 10 Pages 716-719

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An 83-year-old female patient with a giant thymic cyst that was successfully treated by percutaneous aspiration and ethanol injection. The patient had complained of coughing and chest discomfort for several years. A chest X-ray film revealed the shadow of a large abnormal mass in the anterior mediastinum. We diagnosed it as a thymic cyst. The patient refused surgery because of her age. We chose a less invasive therapy, namely, ethanol sclerosis of the cyst. The cyst was successfully treated without any complications, and no recurrence was found at the one-year follow-up. This therapy may be one of the best treatments for thymic cysts, especially in very elderly patients.
(Internal Medicine 36: 716-719, 1997)

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