A clinicopathological study of thymic neoplasms: Nine-year experience at a tertiary care hospital in western Maharashtra, India

Introduction: The thymuses are quite rare neoplastic lesions arising in anterior mediastinum seen in the adults. The histological spectrum varied from the encapsulated thymoma to the thymic carcinomas. Further subtyping into various groups on the basis of morphology with immunohistological findings have gained the popularity as depicted by the latest WHO classification of thymomas. A few studies have been done to ascertain the characteristics of thymic neoplasms in Indian population.