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Annals of Oncology Advance Access originally published online on October 30, 2006
Annals of Oncology 2007 18(3):603-604; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdl406
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© 2006 European Society for Medical Oncology

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Thymoma and progressive T-cell lymphocytosis

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Peripheral T-cell lymphocytosis is a condition rarely associated with malignant thymomas. When this occurs, a differential diagnosis should be carried out between ‘lymphocyte spillover’ from the thymus into the peripheral blood and an associated T-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia [1]. The etiology of this phenomenon is uncertain and may reflect the perturbation of systemic immunoregulation that accompanies some thymic neoplasia [2].

We describe a new case of a metastastic lymphocyte-rich thymoma and T-cell lymphocytosis not responding . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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M Morales1,*, M Trujillo2, M del Carmen Maeso3 and M-A Piris4

1 Service of Medical Oncology
2 Service of Haematology
3 Service of Pathology, University Hospital NS de Candelaria, 38010 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands
4 Molecular Pathology Programme, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), 28029 Madrid, Spain

* E-mail: mmoralesg@comtf.es


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