A case of Hodgkin's disease of the thymus

Abstract

A female of 23 years of age was admitted in our clinic with complaints of cough and abnormal shadow in the lung field. By chest X-ray examination, a round-shaped mass shadow was noted in the right upper anterior mediastinum. The tentative diagnosis was teratoma or thymoma. At thoracotomy, about an apple-sized mass was found in the thoracic cavity involving the upper lobe of the right lung, thymus, as well as other mediastinal structures. There was apparent invasion of superior vena cava which was mostly resected. The tumor was exstirpated together with upper lobectomy of the right lung.
Pathological examination of the resected specimen revealed Hodgkin's disease of the thymus. Then postoperative radiation therapy was carried out.