Tumor-to-tumor metastasis: lung cancer within a thymoma

Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Jan;69(1):147-150. doi: 10.1007/s11748-020-01481-5. Epub 2020 Sep 12.

Abstract

Tumor-to-tumor metastasis is a rare phenomenon. We present a rare case of an 83-year-old man with pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma and thymoma. Thymectomy and superior segmentectomy of the left lower lobe were successfully performed on the patient. This thymoma had a region of lung cancer. Metastasis from other tumors to thymoma is rare, and we found a report that described a pancreatic carcinoma metastasizing to thymoma. We report an extremely rare case of metastasis from lung cancer to a thymoma.

Keywords: Lung cancer; Pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma; Thymoma; Tumor-to-tumor metastasis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Male
  • Thymectomy
  • Thymoma* / surgery
  • Thymus Neoplasms* / surgery