Liver involvement in the course of thymoma-associated multiorgan autoimmunity:The first histological description
Liver involvement in the course of thymoma-associated multiorgan autoimmunity: The first histological description作者机构:Department of Medical OncologyPoliclinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medicovia Alvaro del PortilloRome 00128Italy Area of Internal MedicineUnit of HepatologyPoliclinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medicovia Alvaro del PortilloRome 00128Italy Unit of PathologyPoliclinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medicovia Alvaro del PortilloRome 00128Italy
出 版 物:《Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases International》 (国际肝胆胰疾病杂志(英文版))
年 卷 期:2022年第21卷第1期
页 面:86-89页
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学科分类:1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题:involvement gastrointestinal diarrhea
摘 要:To the Editor:Thymoma-associated multiorgan autoimmunity(TAMA)is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome described in patients with thymoma and characterized by multiorgan failure and graft-versus-host dis-ease(GVHD)like pathology affecting the skin,the gastrointestinal tract,and the *** date,only 21 cases are reported in liter-ature[1],with some patients presenting gastrointestinal and hep-atic manifestations,mainly colitis,diarrhea,and abnormal liver en-zymes,but the hepatic involvement has not been histologically characterized yet.