A case of madness resulting in a fortunate outcome; case report of a psychotic break as a result of cortisol secreting thymic neuroendocrine thymic tumor

• Main Authors: Jibran Durrani (Author), Faizan Malik (Author), Naveed Ali (Author), Syed Imran Mustafa Jafri (Author), Mohsin Hamid (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Representing a mere 2-5% of the total thymic malignancies and 0.4% of total carcinoid tumors, primary thymic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are the zebras of the thymic neoplasms. They were initially characterized as 'epithelial thymomas'; later, the term carcinoid tumors was coined by Rosai...