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Malignant Thymoma
Definition 1
A thymoma that has an aggressive clinical course (capsular invasion, infiltration of the surrounding tissues) and can metastasize. Although any morphologic subtype of thymoma may eventually have a malignant clinical course, this term is most often associated with thymoma types B3 and C. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
A malignant neoplasm of the thymus, originating from epithelial thymus cells. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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