2C27.2

Malignant thymoma

Timoma maligno

Category

Definition

A thymoma that has an aggressive clinical course (capsular invasion, infiltration of the surrounding tissues) and can metastasize. Although any morphologic subtype of thymoma may eventually have a malignant clinical course, this term is most often associated with thymoma types B3 and C.

Index Terms

Malignant thymomaThymoma type A of thymusmalignant type A thymomaThymoma type AB of thymusmalignant type AB thymomaThymoma type B of thymusmalignant type B1 thymomamalignant type B2 thymomamalignant B3 thymoma