The Thymus: Diagnostic Imaging, Functions, and Pathologic Anatomy

✍ Scribed by E. Willich (auth.), Professor Dr. Eberhard Walter, Professor (em.) Dr. Eberhard Willich, W. Richard Webb M.D. (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 231
Series: Medical Radiology - Diagnostic Imaging
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Until the middle of the present century, the morphology and function of the thymus were primarily of interest to those working in the fields of pathologic anatomy, endo crinology, and pediatrics. However, during recent decades careful and refined histo logic studies of the organ have expanded our knowledge. It now seems certain that the thymus plays a central role in the immune system, and some of the substances pro duced by this organ are considered together under the collective term of "thymic hor mones". In clinical medicine (in particular endocrinology and pediatrics, as well as surgery and radiologic oncology), the startling advances that have taken place in radiologic diagnostics with the advent of new imaging procedures such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging have provided fresh impetus in the search for effec tive treatments for hyperplasia, tumors, and tumor-like changes of the thymus. Normal variants of the thymus, which lies concealed within the anterior superior mediastinum, have been recorded, and pathologic changes such as primary or secondary tumors can now be analyzed and correctly diagnosed.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Introduction — Historical Background....Pages 1-3
Anatomy and Embryology of the Thymus....Pages 5-13
Immunologic Function of the Thymus....Pages 15-21
Imaging Procedures for Visualization of the Thymus....Pages 23-34
Diagnostic Imaging of the Normal Thymus....Pages 35-55
Acute and Stress-Induced Involution of the Thymus....Pages 57-61
Developmental Abnormalities of the Thymus....Pages 63-108
Tumors of the Thymus....Pages 109-193
Tumor-like (Nonneoplastic) Conditions of the Thymus and/or Mediastinum....Pages 195-204
Trauma and Hemorrhage of the Thymus....Pages 205-208
The Thymus and Myasthenia Gravis....Pages 209-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-226

✦ Subjects

Imaging / Radiology; Oncology

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