M200: 1. Thymus gland
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Clinical history : A 3 year old child who was admitted with a foreign a foreign object in the bronchus.
Radiographs show that 2/3 of the lungs had collapsed and had produced stridor sounds but showed no signs of shortness of breath.
The liver and spleen was palpable and a radiograph of the thorax showed a particularly big mediastinal mass and the differentiating diagnosis of lymphosarcoma and Hodgkin's disease or tuberculosis.
Autopsy findings : 1. Large tumor in the anterior mediastinum in the area of the thymus gland.
2. Metastatic nodules had formed in the liver and both kidneys.
Diagnosis: Thymus gland lymphoblast lymphoma.
Sternberg carcinoma
Radiographs show that 2/3 of the lungs had collapsed and had produced stridor sounds but showed no signs of shortness of breath.
The liver and spleen was palpable and a radiograph of the thorax showed a particularly big mediastinal mass and the differentiating diagnosis of lymphosarcoma and Hodgkin's disease or tuberculosis.
Autopsy findings : 1. Large tumor in the anterior mediastinum in the area of the thymus gland.
2. Metastatic nodules had formed in the liver and both kidneys.
Diagnosis: Thymus gland lymphoblast lymphoma.
Sternberg carcinoma