An Anterior Mediastinal Tumor -Thymolipoma-

Min, Hee Won; Kim, Hyung Jung; Lee, Jong Wha; Lee, Won Woung; Lee, Doo Yun; Kim, Young Bae; Lee, Yoo Bok

doi:1987.34.3.260

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 34(3); 1987 > Article

Case Report

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1987;34(3):260-264.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1987.34.3.260 Published online September 1, 1987.

An Anterior Mediastinal Tumor -Thymolipoma-

Hee Won Min¹, Hyung Jung Kim¹, Jong Wha Lee¹, Won Woung Lee¹, Doo Yun Lee², Young Bae Kim³, Yoo Bok Lee³

¹Depatment of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
²Depatment of Chest Surgery, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
³Depatment of Pathology, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

전종격동 종괴

민희원¹, 김형중¹, 이종화¹, 이원영¹, 이두연², 김영배³, 이유복³

Abstract

Thymolipoma, first described in 1916 by Lange, is the benign encapsulated tumor containing intermixed thymic and fatty tissue. It is rare anterior mediastinal tumor reportedly 2% to 9% of all the thymic tumors. There were some descriptions in association with Grave’s disease, aplastic anemia, myasthenia gravis and Hodgkin’s disease. The major symptoms they produce, if any, are the results of pressure on surrounding structures. Recently, we experienced a 42-year-old woman with symptoms such as chest pain, productive cough and dyspnea diagnosed as thymolipoma. And herein we report this case with review of literatures.