Çisem Yıldız, Büşra Topuz Türkcan, Özge Vural, Deniz Gezgin Yıldırım, Mehmet Arda İnan, Aylar Poyraz, Faruk Güçlü Pınarlı, İrfan Taştepe, Ercan Demir, Emine Nur Sunar Yayla, Pelin Esmeray Şenol, Nihal Karaçayır, Sevcan A Bakkaloğlu
Thymic tumors are very rare neoplasms in children and account for less than 1% of mediastinal tumors in pediatric patients. One-third of the pediatric patients present with symptoms related to the compression of the tumor mass on the surrounding anatomic structures, and paraneoplastic syndromes such as myasthenia gravis, pure red cell aplasia, acquired hypogammaglobulinemia, and connective tissue disorders, which rarely occur in children with thymic tumors. Herein, we report a case of thymic carcinoma mimicking the symptoms of a connective tissue disease with symmetrical polyarthritis accompanying myositis, fever, weight loss, and malaise in a 15-year-old male patient...
May 2024: International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases