Year 2012 Vol. 20 No 1

ONCOLOGY

A.V. PROKHOROV, M.N. SHEPETKO, I.N. LABUNETS

TREATMENT RESULTS OF PATIENTS WITH THYMUS TUMORS

EE “Belarusian State Medical University”,
the Republic of Belarus

Objectives. Analysis of the nearest and distant treatment results of patients with thymomas; carrying out of pathomorphological estimation of the tumors and determination of dependence between the histological structure of the thymus tumors and general survival rate of patients.
Methods. 113 patients with the mediastinum tumors including 17 patients with the thymus tumors were included in the research.
Results. 7 patients (41,2%) died of the disease progressing. 3 patients in whom thymoma invasiveness was doubtful died of locoregional recurrence or the disease progressing in the form of separate metastases in different terms after treatment had been completed.
Conclusions. Benign process in the thymus which hasn’t been proved at the intraoperative revision and an urgent morphological investigation should be regarded as malignant tumors when the radical volume of the surgical operation with the mediastinum lymphodissection should be performed.

Keywords: mediastinum tumors, thymus, thymomas
p. 89 – 92 of the original issue
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Shepetko Mikhail Nikolaevich
Information about the authors:
Prokhorov A.V. Doctor of medical sciences, professor, head of the oncology chair of EE “Belarusian State Medical University”.
Shepetko M.N. Candidate of medical sciences, associate professor of the oncology chair of EE “Belarusian State Medical University”.
Labunets I.N. Candidate of medical sciences, assistant of the oncology chair of EE “Belarusian State Medical University”.
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