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Lee, Kim, Cheon, Lee, Won, Kim, Hong, and Koo: A case of thymic carcinoid tumour with multiple metastasis including bone marrow
Case Report

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1999; 46(3): 402-408.

Published online: 14 March 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1999.46.3.402

A case of thymic carcinoid tumour with multiple metastasis including bone marrow

La Young Lee, Hwa Jeong Kim, Seon Hee Cheon, Soon Nam Lee, Yong Soon Won, Yoo Kyung Kim, Ki Sook Hong, Hea Soo Koo

Department of Internal medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

Department of Clinical Pathology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

Department of Anatomical Pathology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

Copyright © The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

Abstract

This report dscribes the thymic carcinoid tumor behaved in a highly aggressive fashion metastasis. Anti-cancer chemotherapy was not effective, the patient died of progressive disease after three months of diagnosis.

Keywords: Carcinoid tumour, Thymus, Bone marrow, Pleural effusion

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