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THYMOMAS AND THYMIC TUMORS
The thymus, a key immune system organ, can be the site of manydifferent benign and malignant TUMORS (Table ). According toRosai and Levine,1it should be emphasized that the term thymoma is restricted to neoplasms of the THYMIC epithelial cells. A detailed his-torical review of the thymus gland and THYMOMAS has been published first description of a THYMIC tumor is credited to Sir AstleyPaston Cooper, a surgeon from London, in 1832. The British micro-scopist Arthur Hill Hassall described in 1849 the corpuscles unique to thethymus. The first association between myasthenia gravis (MG) and thy-moma was discovered by the German neurologist Hermann Oppenheim,in 1899.
The thymus, a key immune system organ, can be the site of many different benign and malignant tumors (Table 90.1). According to Rosai and Levine,1 it should be emphasized that the term “thymoma” is restricted to neoplasms of the thymic epithelial cells.
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