Thymic cholesterin granuloma as incidental finding in patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) and arthritis psoriatic

Francesco Arena, Fabrizio Ceresa, Filomena Bruna Di Donno, Francesco Patanè, Giuseppe Speciale

Abstract


The authors report herein an incidental thymic observation at surgery of a cholesterin granuloma, associated to bicuspid aortic valve and psoriasic arthritis. The clinicopathological characteristics as well as the possible histogenesis are referred and discussed, excluding the traumatic nature of this condition, but stressing the chronic inflammatory degenerative origin.

Keywords


anterior mediastinum; cholesterol granuloma; thymus; psoriasis; bicuspid aortic valve

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/1828-6550/APMB.108.1.2020.CCS3

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