Two resected cases of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma arising in the thymus

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  • Matsui Takuya
    Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kariya Toyota General Hospital
  • Mizuno Kotaro
    Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kariya Toyota General Hospital
  • Oda Risa
    Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kariya Toyota General Hospital
  • Yamada Takeshi
    Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kariya Toyota General Hospital

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  • 胸腺発生MALTリンパ腫の2切除例

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Abstract

Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma in the thymus is relatively rare. We present two cases of MALT lymphoma of the thymus with a review of the literature. The first patient was a 67-year-old woman. She visited a local physician with a cough. Chest computed tomography showed a well-circumscribed and lobulated mass in the anterior mediastinum. She was referred to our hospital and recommended to undergo surgery because the mass was suspected of being a cystic thymoma or a thymic cyst. Tumor resection was performed under video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery using carbon dioxide insufflation. The second patient was a 43-year-old woman. She was referred to our hospital because of a sore throat. Chest computed tomography showed a well-circumscribed and smooth mass in the anterior mediastinum. Because the mass was suspected of being a thymoma, we performed tumor resection through a sternotomy approach. She was diagnosed with Sjogren' s syndrome after surgery. In both cases, the resected specimens led to a diagnosis of MALT lymphoma of the thymus.

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