cortical thymoma
Findings
No curated finding names cortical thymoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A thymic epithelial neoplasm characterized by the presence of neoplastic large, polygonal epithelial cells with large vesicular nuclei and prominent nucleoli. The neoplastic cells are arranged around perivascular spaces and along septa. Immature T-lymphocytes are also present. It may be associated with myasthenia gravis, pure red cell aplasia, and hypogammaglobulinemia. It is a tumor of moderate malignancy. The majority of cases occur in the anterior mediastinum as Masaoka stage I, stage II, or stage III tumors. Metastatic, stage IV tumors occur less frequently.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0003915), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
2 names
Resolves to: cortical thymoma
- Also called
- polygonal cell thymomathymoma type B2