A Rare Tumor with a Very Rare Initial Presentation: Thymic Carcinoma as Bone Marrow Metastasis

Tumors of thymus gland are rare and account for 0.2% to 1.5% of all the neoplasms. They constitute a heterogeneous group that has an unknown etiology and a complex as well as varied biology. This has led to difficulty in their histological classification and in predicting their prognostic and surviv...

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Main Authors: Sonam Sharma (Author), Leelavathi Dawson (Author)
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Published: Hindawi Limited, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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