ROENTGEN-RAY DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF THYMOMA

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To differentiate and determine the source of origin of primary mediastinal neoplasms and other mediastinal masses is notoriously difficult ante mortem, and is at times impossible even at necropsy. This is particularly true both from a roentgenologic and from a clinical standpoint when the patient is first seen after a neoplasm has extensively invaded surrounding structures or pleural effusion has occurred. In the latter instance, the character of the exudate may afford a clue as to the nature of the disease, but its source of origin is apt to remain shrouded in obscurity. Tumors of the thymus are undoubtedly rare, but their occurrence is probably more common than the reports in the literature would indicate. They are rarely recognized as such during life. If the presence of Hassall's corpuscles is taken as a criterion for establishing the thymic origin of a tumor, even some of the reported postmortem diagnoses are

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