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Calcified Mediastinal Lesions: A Rare and Unusual Coincidence


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1 Professor & Senior Consultant, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, India
2 Senior Consultant, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, India
3 Professor & Senior Consultant, Department of Medicine, India
4 Resident Trainee, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Baby Memorial Hospital, Calicut, Kerala, India
 

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Calcification in thyroid and thymic tumors are very rare. Here we present two cases reported to the outpatient department within a span of one week. Both of them had radiological evidence of mediastinal tumor with ring calcification in the outer border. One was diagnosed as retrosternal thyroid with calcification by surgical biopsy. The other case was a superior mediastinal tumour with ring calcification and a diagnosis of thymic lesion was made based on the clinical evidence of myasthenia gravis in the patient.


Keywords

Ring calcification, thymic cyst, retrosternal thyroid
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  • Calcified Mediastinal Lesions: A Rare and Unusual Coincidence

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Authors

Ravindran Chetambath
Professor & Senior Consultant, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, India
Praveen Kumar
Senior Consultant, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, India
Bhargaval Pallivalappil
Professor & Senior Consultant, Department of Medicine, India
Gayathri Nair
Resident Trainee, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Baby Memorial Hospital, Calicut, Kerala, India

Abstract


Calcification in thyroid and thymic tumors are very rare. Here we present two cases reported to the outpatient department within a span of one week. Both of them had radiological evidence of mediastinal tumor with ring calcification in the outer border. One was diagnosed as retrosternal thyroid with calcification by surgical biopsy. The other case was a superior mediastinal tumour with ring calcification and a diagnosis of thymic lesion was made based on the clinical evidence of myasthenia gravis in the patient.


Keywords


Ring calcification, thymic cyst, retrosternal thyroid

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