What symptom is malignant thymoma?

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Suffering from thymoma, many friends are worried that this disease will directly affect their life and work. We don't know much about thymoma, so we will have some misunderstanding about it. After the appearance of malignant thymoma, what patients are most worried about is their life span. What are the symptoms of malignant thymoma? Let's talk about it

What symptom is malignant thymoma?

The clinical symptoms of thymoma come from the compression of the surrounding organs and the specific symptoms of the tumor itself, that is, merger syndrome. Most small thymomas have no obvious characteristics and are difficult to be found. When the tumor grows to a certain size, the most common symptoms are chest pain, chest tightness, cough and chest discomfort. The nature of chest pain is not obvious, the degree is different, and the location is not fixed. Generally speaking, it is relatively light, often symptomatic treatment can be.

Some patients were found mediastinal tumor shadow during X-ray examination, chest X-ray or chest X-ray examination. At this time, the neglected thymoma has generally grown to a larger volume, which is the manifestation of compression without vena cava or superior vena cava obstruction syndrome, What's more, severe irritative cough, dyspnea caused by pleural effusion, palpitation caused by pericardial effusion, shortness of breath, or bone pain may occur. All these symptoms indicate that the patient may have malignant thymoma or thymic cancer.

For malignant thymoma, we should pay attention to early treatment. The method of operation is generally used, and the judgment of tumor resectability should be considered before operation. When the tumor has affected the innominate vein or superior vena cava, or the blood vessels have been surrounded by the tumor, or the tumor and surrounding tissues are frozen, the operation should be stopped immediately, only pathological biopsy should be taken, and postoperative radiotherapy should be carried out. If the tumor has adhesion and infiltration with the large blood vessels, but can be separated, the principle to follow is: gradually dissect, from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, first make it loose, then free the tumor body, and finally remove it after clamping in the root base.

matters needing attention

In daily life, it is best to pay attention to their own care. After surgery, we must pay attention to the rules of life and the habits of diet, and be able to eat more healthy food. After the appearance of malignant thymoma, it should be found as soon as possible and treated as soon as possible, otherwise it will affect the life of patients and have a certain impact on the life cycle of patients.