Vol 8 (December 30, 2024): Mediastinum [Abstract Book for the 14th International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group Annual Meeting (ITMIG 2024)]

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AB061. Long-term outcomes and characteristics of unresectable or inoperable thymic malignancies
Dylan Bush, Matt Skovgard, Sanaa Raoof, Antonios Sideris, Xingzhe Li, Hakeem Oufkir, Michael Curry, Kay See Tan, Jose Araujo-Filho, Eric Robinson, David Jones, Michelle Ginsberg, Andreas Rimner, Gregory Riely, James Huang
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AB060. Multiplex immunofluorescence analysis of potential targets in thymic epithelial tumors
Vanya Aggarwal, Susree Modepalli, Jaeil Ahn, Jennifer Marks, Jacob Zaemes, Anju Duttargi, Chul Kim
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AB060  
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AB059. The antero-superior mediastinum as unique metastatic site of primary unknown desmoplastic melanoma: a case report
Bianca Arianna Facchini, Erica Pietroluongo, Francesca Sparano, Angelo Luciano, Marco Ferrari, Marianna Tortora, Lucia Festino, Claudia Trojaniello, Vito Vanella, Maria Grazia Vitale, Domenico Mallardo, Miriam Paone, Mario Giuliano, Alberto Servetto, Ester Simeone, Gerardo Ferrara, Giovannella Palmieri, Paolo Antonio Ascierto, Margaret Ottaviano
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AB058. Rebound thymic hyperplasia and immune related adverse events: reality or fantasy—a case report
Bianca Arianna Facchini, Francesca Sparano, Angelo Luciano, Marco Ferrari, Marianna Tortora, Erica Pietroluongo, Lucia Festino, Claudia Trojaniello, Vito Vanella, Maria Grazia Vitale, Domenico Mallardo, Miriam Paone, Mario Giuliano, Alberto Servetto, Ester Simeone, Giovannella Palmieri, Paolo Antonio Ascierto, Margaret Ottaviano
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AB058  
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AB057. The practice, intent, and outcome of radiotherapy in thymic epithelial tumors—results from a national cohort
Ditte M. Moncada, Tine Østergaard, Katharina A. Perell, Peter M. Petersen
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AB057  
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AB056. Spatial analysis of T-cell development in type B2 thymoma tumour microenvironment at single-cell resolution
Kirolous S. Hanna, Fatima Dhalla, Andreas Tarcevski, Mary E. Deadman, Pietro Zara, Bernard Liem, Rhona Taberham, Antonios Kourliouros, Dionisios Stavroulias, Adam E. Handel, M. Isabel Leite, Georg A. Hollander
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AB056  
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AB055. Tumor-T cell interactions in thymic epithelial tumors
Laercio DaSilva, Marieke Lavaert, Alisa K. Sivapiromrat, Shannon Swift, Meredith J. McAdams, Chen Zhao, Arun Rajan, Avinash Bhandoola
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AB055  
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AB054. A case report of thymoma resection with invasion into the superior vena cava
Yuwen Bai, Yanzhong Xin, Chengyuan Fang, Luquan Zhang, Jianqun Ma
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AB054  
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AB052. Rare tumors biobanking and artificial intelligence (AI): complexity and synergism
Simona di Martino, Enzo Gallo, Chiara Mandoj, Celeste Accetta, Ana Maria Arteni Brindusa, Matteo Pallocca, Valentina Laquintana, Giovanni Cigliana, Paolo Visca, Edoardo Pescarmona, Mirella Marino
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AB052  
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AB051. Phase II, neo-adjuvant pembrolizumab, paclitaxel, carboplatin therapy followed by post operational pembrolizumab consolidation in locally advanced thymic epithelial tumor
Sehhoon Park, Kyungmi Yang, Jae Myoung Noh, Hongryull Pyo, Yong Chan Ahn, Yoon-La Choi, Yeong Hak Bang, Jinyoung Kim, Hyun Ae Jung, Jong-Mu Sun, Se-Hoon Lee, Jin Seok Ahn, Myung-Ju Ahn, Yeong Jeong Jeon, Junghee Lee, Seong Yong Park, Jong Ho Cho, Hong Kwan Kim, Yong Soo Choi, Young Mog Shim
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AB051  
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AB049. Sequential induction chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced thymic tumors: a phase II clinical trial
Xuefei Zhang, Changlu Wang, Xiuxiu Hao, Ning Xu, Fenghao Yu, Zhitao Gu, Teng Mao, Yan Shen, Lei Zhu, Qin Zhang, Wentao Fang
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AB049  
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AB047. Comparison of outcomes of minimally invasive surgery versus sternotomy for early-stage thymic epithelial tumors: a single-center retrospective analysis
Hiromitsu Takizawa, Ayaka Baba, Emi Takehara, Taihei Takeuchi, Keisuke Fujimoto, Shinichi Sakamoto, Naoki Miyamoto, Hiroyuki Sumitomo, Atsushi Morishita, Naoya Kawakita, Hiroaki Toba
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AB047  
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AB046. Clinical landscape and immunological features of patients with thymic carcinoma
Erica Pietroluongo, Pietro De Placido, Angelo Luciano, Margaret Ottaviano, Rocco Morra, Marianna Tortora, Annarita Peddio, Carmine De Angelis, Grazia Arpino, Sabino De Placido, Alberto Servetto, Giovannella Palmieri, Roberto Bianco, Mario Giuliano
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AB046  
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AB045. Impact of relative dose intensity of platinum-base chemotherapy as first-line treatment in patients with thymic epithelial tumors
Erica Pietroluongo, Roberto Buonaiuto, Pietro De Placido, Angelo Luciano, Margaret Ottaviano, Rocco Morra, Marianna Tortora, Annarita Peddio, Rosanna Di Rienzo, Maria Rosaria Saponaro, Aldo Caltavituro, Carmine De Angelis, Grazia Arpino, Sabino De Placido, Giovannella Palmieri, Alberto Servetto, Roberto Bianco, Mario Giuliano
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AB045  
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AB044. Surveillance trends after resection for thymic malignancy
Giye Choe, Ivana Vasic, Nassrene Elmadhun
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AB044  
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AB043. One case report of recurrence of atypical A thymoma subsequent to undergoing surgery for type AB thymoma
Guo-dong Shi, Hui-jiang Gao, Jiang-shan Ai, Peng Zhang, Yu-Cheng Wei
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AB043  
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AB042. Deep dive into the NEJM study suggesting health consequences after thymectomy
Frank Detterbeck, Henry Kaminski
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AB042  
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AB041. Deep learning discriminates thymic epithelial tumors histological subtypes using digital pathology
Matteo Sacco, Erica Pietroluongo, Aliya N. Husain, Qudsia Arif, Alessandra Esposito, Anna Di Lello, Marina Chiara Garassino, Mirella Marino, James M. Dolezal
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AB041  
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AB040. Thymic epithelial tumors and haematological malignancies: a monocentric experience
Angelo Luciano, Erica Pietroluongo, Margaret Ottaviano, Pietro De Placido, Rocco Morra, Annarita Peddio, Mara Memoli, Francesco Grimaldi, Giorgia Battipaglia, Roberto Bianco, Mario Giuliano, Alberto Servetto, Giovannella Palmieri
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AB040  
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AB039. Complex management of thymic epithelial tumors associated with immuno- haematological disorders at the diagnosis: case reports of our experience
Angelo Luciano, Erica Pietroluongo, Margaret Ottaviano, Pietro De Placido, Rocco Morra, Annarita Peddio, Mara Memoli, Francesco Grimaldi, Giorgia Battipaglia, Marianna Tortora, Mario Giuliano, Roberto Bianco, Alberto Servetto, Giovannella Palmieri
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AB039  
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AB038. Thymomatous myasthenia gravis is associated with fluctuations in CD4-positive T-cell subsets through the activity of the PI3K-Akt-mTOR pathway
Shunta Ishihara, Tsuyoshi Yaoi, Masanori Shimomura, Satoru Okada, Tatsuo Furuya, Sanzo Moriwaki, Takashi Fujimura, Sae Shibata, Hiroshi Ogi, Soh Tando, Kyoko Itoh, Masayoshi Inoue
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AB038  
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AB037. AI-powered differentiation of thymomas (A and B3) and thymic carcinoma using histopathological analysis of H&E whole slide images
Anna Salut Esteve Domínguez, Farhan Akram, Stephanie Peeters, Dirk De Ruysscher, Jan von der Thüsen
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AB037  
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AB036. The contribution of H.K. Müller-Hermelink to the understanding of human thymic pathology
Mirella Marino, Philipp Ströbel, Alexander Marx
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AB036  
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AB035. Mediastinal lesion characterization and prognostication using diffusion MRI: from whole lesion to target zone with dynamic approach
Johan Coolen, Frederik De Keyzer, Laurens Ceulemans, Kristiaan Nackaerts, Thomas Tousseyn, Valerie Van Ballaer, Adriana Dubbeldam, Walter De Wever, Paul Clement, Weynand Birgit, Christophe Deroose, Karin Haustermans, Willy Coosemans, Philippe Nafteux, Christophe Dooms, Dirk Van Raemdonck
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AB035  
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AB034. Single-cell RNA-seq reveals altered gene expression and cellular composition in thymic epithelial cells of type B thymoma
Nobuko Akiyama, Kano Namiki, Kenta Horie, Takahisa Miyao, Maki Miyauchi, Mizuki Morota, Jun Nakajima, Taishin Akiyama
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AB034  
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AB033. Impact of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, tertiary lymphoid structures, and blood inflammatory markers in thymic cancer patients undergoing surgery
Tomohiro Habu, Hiromasa Yamamoto, Toshiya Fujiwara, Shinsuke Saisho, Yuji Hirami, Yoshinobu Shikatani, Tsuyoshi Ueno, Mototsugu Watanabe, Tomoaki Otsuka, Shinji Otani, Hidetoshi Inokawa, Makio Hayama, Masaomi Yamane, Eiji Yamada, Osamu Kawamata, Eisuke Matsuda, Tatsuro Hayashi, Kota Araki, Hiroyuki Tao, Shinichi Toyooka
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AB033  
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AB032. Clinical outcome and immunophenotype in patients with thymic epithelial tumors
Rocco Morra, Michele Francesco Di Tolla, Erica Pietroluongo, Pietro De Placido, Margaret Ottaviano, Antonio D’Ambrosio, Aldo Caltavituro, Vitoantonio Del Deo, Marianna Tortora, Anna Maria Malfitano, Vittoria D’Esposito, Sara Pellegrino, Annarita Peddio, Angelo Luciano, Sabino De Del Placido, Pietro Formisano, Roberto Bianco, Alberto Servetto, Giovannella Palmieri, Mario Giuliano
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AB032  
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AB031. Clinical outcome and serum cytokinome profile in patients with thymic epithelial tumors
Rocco Morra, Michele Francesco Di Tolla, Erica Pietroluongo, Pietro De Placido, Margaret Ottaviano, Antonio D’Ambrosio, Aldo Caltavituro, Vitoantonio Del Deo, Marianna Tortora, Anna Maria Malfitano, Vittoria D’Esposito, Sara Pellegrino, Maria Rosaria Saponaro, Angelo Luciano, Sabino De Placido, Roberto Bianco, Pietro Formisano, Alberto Servetto, Mario Giuliano, Giovannella Palmieri
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AB031  
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AB030. Metabolic profiles and clinical outcome in patients with thymic epithelial tumors
Rocco Morra, Michele Francesco Di Tolla, Erica Pietroluongo, Pietro De Placido, Margaret Ottaviano, Antonio D’Ambrosio, Aldo Caltavituro, Vitoantonio Del Deo, Marianna Tortora, Anna Maria Malfitano, Vittoria D’Esposito, Sara Pellegrino, Maria Rosaria Saponaro, Angelo Luciano, Sabino De Placido, Pietro Formisano, Roberto Bianco, Alberto Servetto, Giovannella Palmieri, Mario Giuliano
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AB030  
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AB029. Short-term outcomes of uniportal subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy for anterior mediastinal tumors
Shuai Wang, Yuansheng Zheng, Jiahao Jiang, Yongqiang Ao, Jian Gao, Fei Liang, Yuanyuan Ma, Jianyong Ding
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AB029  
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AB028. Spatial transcriptomics to dissect the cellular heterogeneity in thymic carcinoma
Minoru Matsumoto, Yasuyo Saijo, Koichi Tsuneyama, Takeshi Oya
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AB028  
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AB027. Insights into hemi-clamshell incision for mediastinal tumor resection
Chengyuan Fang, Yuwen Bai, Yanzhong Xin, Luquan Zhang, Jianqun Ma
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AB027  
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AB026. Paraplegia as a first clinical presentation of giant cell tumor of the thoracic spine presenting as a posterior mediastinal tumor with cutaneous tuberculosis: a case report
Sukarti San Suwarno, Andreas Infianto, Ahmad Fauzi, Rizki Hanriko, Danasha Utomo, Resti Arania, Sri Indah Aruminingsih, Hendra Tarigan, Isura Febrihartati
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AB026  
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AB025. Primary posterior mediastinal benign leiomyoma arising from accessory hemiazygos vein: a case report
Naoto Kitahara, Yoshihisa Kadota, Seiji Taniguchi, Hiroto Ishida, Hirokazu Watari, Kayo Ueda, Hideo Mori
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AB025  
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AB024. Evaluation of surgical treatment of myasthenia gravis complicated thymoma
Naoko Ose, Takashi Kanou, Toru Kimura, Eriko Fukui, Kenji Kimura, Yasushi Shintani
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AB024  
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AB023. The new TNM classification and Masaoka staging system prognosis of thymoma: a retrospective single-center study
Takao Shigenobu, Takahiro Suzuki, Akira Yoshizu
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AB023  
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AB022. Tumor size as an independent prognosticator in advanced thymic epithelial tumors requiring a combined resection of adjacent organs and dissemination
Satoru Okada, Shunta Ishihara, Masashi Yanada, Tsunehiro Ii, Satoshi Ikebe, Chiaki Nakazono, Yasuo Ueshima, Kenji Kameyama, Hiroaki Tsunezuka, Motohiro Nishimura, Shinya Ito, Kunihiko Terauchi, Kazuhiro Ito, Daishiro Kato, Hiroyuki Izumi, Hirofumi Suzuki, Yoshiaki Matsuura, Masanori Shimomura, Tatsuo Furuya, Masayoshi Inoue
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AB022  
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AB021. Remission of recurrent pleural thymoma achieved with lenvatinib as a single agent: a case report
Yi-Chen Chang, Jie-Yu You, Chen-Ping Hsieh
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AB021  
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AB020. Transforming growth factor-beta 1 as an active biomarker along with programmed cell death ligand-1 expression for the malignant potential in thymic epithelial tumors
Chiaki Nakazono, Satoru Okada, Shunta Ishihara, Masanori Shimomura, Tatsuo Furuya, Kenji Kameyama, Daichi Kakibuchi, Stefan Küffer, Denise Müller, Alexander Marx, Philipp Ströbel, Masayoshi Inoue
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AB020  
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AB019. Prognostic impact of serum CYFRA 21-1 levels on postoperative outcomes of thymic epithelial tumors
Haruhiko Shiiya, Hideki Ujiie, Yuka Takakuwa, Shinya Otsuka, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Akihiro Sasaki, Kazuto Ohtaka, Aki Fujiwara-Kuroda, Masato Aragaki, Tatsuya Kato
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AB019  
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AB018. Superior mediastinal tumor, distribution of the diseases, and its clinical course
Takao Nakanishi, Taishi Adachi, Hideki Motoyama, Mitsugu Omasa
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AB018  
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AB017. Robotic thymectomy for Morvan’s syndrome associated with thymoma: a case report
Daichi Kakibuchi, Shunta Ishihara, Masanori Shimomura, Satoru Okada, Tatsuo Furuya, Masayoshi Inoue
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AB017  
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AB016. A case of invasive thymoma with rapid response to PAC therapy, after an early postoperative recurrence
Chika Harada, Kentaro Kitano, Hiroki Umezawa, Chiyoko Kono, Hiroki Tanaka, Rie Ohtomo
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AB016  
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AB015. Remarkable long-term survival following surgical resection and chemotherapy in type A thymoma with bilateral pulmonary metastasis: a rare case report
Hao-Xian Yang, Wei Gan, Mu-Zi Yang, Chu-Long Xie, Tian-Yu Sun, Hao Yang, Zi-Hui Tan
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AB015  
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AB014. Impact of size of primary tumor on survival in thymic epithelial tumor
Asato Hashinokuchi, Shinkichi Takamori, Junjia Zhu, Kyoto Matsudo, Fumihiko Kinoshita, Takaki Akamine, Miyuki Abe, Mikihiro Kohno, Keigo Ozono, Tomoyoshi Takenaka, Atsushi Osoegawa, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Takefumi Komiya
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AB014  
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AB013. Characteristic differences in the abundance of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and intratumoral developing T cells in thymoma
Tatsuo Furuya, Masanori Shimomura, Satoru Okada, Chiaki Nakazono, Atsuki Uchibori, Tomoki Nishimura, Kenji Kameyama, Masayoshi Inoue
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AB013  
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AB012. Extent of thymectomy in anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive thymoma
Yasufumi Uematsu, Kazuhisa Tanaka, Ryo Karita, Hiroki Imabayashi, Daiki Shimizu, Takahiro Ochi, Takahiro Yamanaka, Jotaro Yusa, Yuki Sata, Takahide Toyoda, Terunaga Inage, Hajime Tamura, Masako Chiyo, Yukiko Matsui, Hidemi Suzuki
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AB012  
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AB011. Robotic thymectomy is an ideal surgical treatment for Good’s syndrome: a case series
Shinya Otsuka, Yuka Takakuwa, Akihiro Sasaki, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Haruhiko Shiiya, Kazuto Ohtaka, Aki Fujiwara-Kuroda, Hideki Ujiie, Masato Aragaki, Kanako C. Hatanaka, Yoshihiro Matsuno, Tatsuya Kato
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AB011  
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AB010. Surgical treatment strategy for thymic cancer invading the aorta: a case report
Yasushi Shintani, Kenji Kimura, Eriko Fukui, Toru Kimura, Takashi Kanou, Naoko Ose
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AB010  
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AB009. Impact of neoadjuvant therapy followed by surgical intervention for thymic carcinoma patients
Shota Nakamura, Osamu Noritake, Heng Huang, Yoshito Imamura, Shoji Okado, Yuji Nomata, Hiroki Watanabe, Yuta Kawasumi, Yuka Kadomatsu, Harushi Ueno, Taketo Kato, Tetsuya Mizuno, Tetsunari Hase, Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa
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AB009  
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AB008. A case of thymic typical carcinoid successfully resected by robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
Akira Ogihara, Motoka Omata, Hiroaki Shidei, Shota Mitsuboshi, Hiroe Aoshima, Tamami Isaka, Takako Matsumoto, Masato Kanzaki
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AB008  
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AB007. A resected case of mediastinal myxoid liposarcoma: a case report
Takayuki Kosaka, Rikuo Ushikubo, Takashi Ibe
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AB007  
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AB006. Two cases of mediastinal germ cell tumor with somatic-type malignancy with neuroendocrine tumor
Tomoki Nishimura, Masanori Shimomura, Satoru Okada, Tatsuo Furuya, Chiaki Nakazono, Sae Kitamura, Saki Hanafusa, Kyosei Takahashi, Masayoshi Inoue
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AB006  
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AB005. Resection of an epithelioid hemangioendothelioma arising from the superior vena cava: a case report
Xiuxiu Hao, Zhitao Gu, Wentao Fang
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AB005  
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AB004. A case report of mediastinal germ cell tumor with vasculogenic mesenchymal tumor components sharing a PTEN mutation with acute megakaryoblastic leukemia
Yu Naito, Natsuko Sakurai, Hideo Arai, Shin-ichiro Horiguchi, Toru Motoi, Daichi Sadato, Yuka Harada, Noriko Doki, Tsunekazu Hishima
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AB004  
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AB001. Late multiple extra-thoracic metastasis from thymoma biopsy seeding: a case report
Carlos S. Pinto, Rita Costa, Anita Paiva, Bruno Couto, Pedro Fernandes
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AB001  

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