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The symptoms are not specific and are related to a mediastinal mass. The patients may complain of dull chest pain, cough, or dyspnoea and constitutional | The symptoms are not specific and are related to a mediastinal mass. The patients may complain of dull chest pain, cough, or dyspnoea and constitutional | ||
symptoms such as fatigue and malaise. Some patients are asymptomatic and during an imaging examination they incidentally discover an anterior mediastinal mass. | symptoms such as fatigue, anorexia, weight loss and malaise. Some patients are asymptomatic and during an imaging examination they incidentally discover an anterior mediastinal mass. There have been no report cases of miastenia gravis associated with thymic carcinoma. Superior vena cava syndrome may occur depending to the size of the tumor. | ||
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Thymic carcinoma physical examination On the Web |
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Risk calculators and risk factors for Thymic carcinoma physical examination |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Alejandro Lemor, M.D. [2]
Overview
Physical Examination
The symptoms are not specific and are related to a mediastinal mass. The patients may complain of dull chest pain, cough, or dyspnoea and constitutional symptoms such as fatigue, anorexia, weight loss and malaise. Some patients are asymptomatic and during an imaging examination they incidentally discover an anterior mediastinal mass. There have been no report cases of miastenia gravis associated with thymic carcinoma. Superior vena cava syndrome may occur depending to the size of the tumor.