51. Type A thymoma presenting with bone metastasis.
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Montecalvo, Joseph, Chang, Jason, Rekhtman, Natasha, Antonescu, Cristina R., Bains, Manjit S., Fabbri, Nicola, Plodkowski, Andrew J., Riely, Gregory J., Travis, William D., and Sauter, Jennifer L.
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THYMUS tumors , *BONE metastasis , *BIOPSY , *CANCER cells , *IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY , *GENETIC mutation - Abstract
A case study is presented of a 73-year-old male patient who type A thyoma that presented as a bone metastasis. It states that a biopsy revealed that oval to spindle-shaped tumor cells had infiltrated the sample. It mentions that immunohistochemistry showed the expression of pan-cytokeratin by the tumor while next-generation sequencing revealed an HRAS p.Q61R mutation without structural variants or copy number alterations in metastasis.
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- 2018
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