Thymoma and Pancytopenia

Abstract
THE concurrence of two unusual diseases is always a matter of medical curiosity and usually the subject of speculation concerning which one might be the cause of the other. The coexistence of thymoma and blood dyscrasia has been occasionally reported in the past, the latter taking the form either of pure anemia with selective depression of the erythroid elements of the bone marrow or, more rarely, so-called aplastic anemia or pancytopenia with depression of all three major hematopoietic progenitors. The association of thymoma with agenesis of erythrocytes has recently been reviewed by Bayrd and Bernatz.1 It is the purpose of . . .

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