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Treatment of pediatric malignant thymoma

Treatment of pediatric malignant thymoma: Long-term remission in a 14-year-old boy with EBV-associated thymic carcinoma by aggressive, combined modality treatment

✍ Niehues, Tim; Harms, Dieter; Jürgens, Heribert; Göbel, Ulrich 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 610 KB

Malignant thymoma, including thymic carcinoma, is extremely uncommon in the pediatric population. It is known to have a very poor outcome. We report on a 14-yearold boy with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated thymic carcinoma. Sections of the original tumor were analyzed for EBV by in situ hybridiz