A 54-year-old male, non smoker, began to suffer from persistent dyspnoea and fever. X-ray and CT scan showed a cystic lesion located in the left anterior mediastinum. This lesion was removed instead of the initially scheduled surgical resection with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) preceded by fine needle aspiration (FNA). A diagnosis of thymoma arising in the wall of thymic cyst was made. Such a rare tumour should be taken into consideration in treating patients with a cystic mediastinal lesion, before VATS and FNA.
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Univ Calif San Francisco, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehens Canc Ctr, Thorac Oncol Program, San Francisco, CA 94115 USAUniv Calif San Francisco, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehens Canc Ctr, Thorac Oncol Program, San Francisco, CA 94115 USA