Invasive Thymoma with Right Upper Lobe Endobronchial Lesion and Autoimmune Enteropathy.
Saumil DatarHenriette De La GarzaAditya SrinivasanGloria IliescuNeda KalhorHoriana B GrosuPublished in: Case reports in pulmonology (2020)
Thymomas are slow-growing neoplasia arising from the epithelial cells of the thymus that usually present with respiratory symptoms, superior vena cava syndrome, or parathymic syndromes. Approximately 30% of thymomas develop myasthenia gravis. An additional 5% of patients with thymomas have other systemic syndromes, including rheumatoid arthritis, thyroiditis, red cell aplasia, systemic lupus erythematosus, and Cushing syndrome. Rarely, patients can present with diarrhea due to thymoma-associated autoimmune gastrointestinal pathologies that include Good syndrome (acquired hypogammaglobulinemia), thymoma- associated multiorgan autoimmunity, and autoimmune enteropathy. We present an uncommon and interesting case of an invasive metastatic thymoma with right upper lobe endobronchial lesion and autoimmune enteropathy in a 27-year-old female. The novelty of this case lay in the findings of extensive metastatic thymoma with right upper lobe endobronchial disease and autoimmune diarrhea.
Keyphrases
- myasthenia gravis
- multiple sclerosis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis
- vena cava
- ultrasound guided
- drug induced
- squamous cell carcinoma
- end stage renal disease
- small cell lung cancer
- disease activity
- case report
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- high grade
- clostridium difficile
- patient reported outcomes
- bone marrow
- celiac disease
- patient reported
- sleep quality