Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Paraneoplastic pemphigus regression after thymoma resection | World Journal of Surgical Oncology BioMed Central Open Access Case report Paraneoplastic pemphigus regression after thymoma resection Nikolaos Barbetakis 1 Georgios Samanidis1 Dimitrios Paliouras1 loannis Boukovinas1 Christos Asteriou1 Eleni Stergiou2 Kostas Laschos3 and Christodoulos Tsilikas1 Address Thoracic Surgery Department Theagenio Cancer Hospital Thessaloniki Greece 2Second Department of Clinical Oncology Theagenio Cancer Hospital Thessaloniki Greece and 3First Department of Clinical Oncology Theagenio Cancer Hospital Thessaloniki Greece Email Nikolaos Barbetakis - nibarbet@ Georgios Samanidis - gsamanidis@ Dimitrios Paliouras - dpaliouras@ Ioannis Boukovinas - iboukovinas@ Christos Asteriou - casteriou@ Eleni Stergiou - estergiou@ Kostas Laschos - klaschos@ Christodoulos Tsilikas - ctsilikas@ Corresponding author Published 12 August 2008 Received 3 May 2008 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 83 doi l477-78l 9-6-83 Accepted 12 August 2008 This article is available from http content 6 l 83 2008 Barbetakis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background Among human neoplasms thymomas are associated with highest frequency with paraneoplastic autoimmune diseases. Case presentation A case of a 42-year-old woman with paraneoplastic pemphigus as the first manifestation of thymoma is reported. Transsternal complete thymoma resection achieved pemphigus regression. The clinical correlations between pemphigus and thymoma are presented. Conclusion Our case report provides further evidence for the important role of autoantibodies .
