TY - JOUR
T1 - Thymoma and squamous thymic carcinoma diagnosis; experience from the RYTHMIC network
AU - Chalabreysse, Lara
AU - Dubois, Romain
AU - Hofman, Véronique
AU - Le Naoures, Cécile
AU - Mansuet-Lupo, Audrey
AU - de Montpréville, Vincent Thomas
AU - De Muret, Anne
AU - Parrens, Marie
AU - Piton, Nicolas
AU - Rouquette, Isabelle
AU - Secq, Véronique
AU - Singeorzan, Cristina
AU - Marx, Alexander
AU - Girard, Nicolas
AU - Besse, Benjamin
AU - Molina, Thierry Jo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Masson SAS
PY - 2021/4/1
Y1 - 2021/4/1
N2 - The RYTHMIC network, supported by the French National Cancer Institute is dedicated to the management of patients with thymic epithelial tumors through regional and national multidisciplinary tumor boards. Tumor board decisions are based on the initial pathology diagnoses. However, following clinical inclusion in the network, a central pathology review is organized, implicating a panel of pathologists, for histotype and stage classification, which is different from a classical second opinion from pathologist to pathologist for a difficult case. Thanks to the participation of all French pathologists, more than 1000 cases have been reviewed by the panel. The aim of this review is to share with the French pathology community, the experience of the group. It underlines the importance of macroscopy and surgeon-pathologist involvement to allow a good central review, the main histopathological and immunophenotypical patterns of the most frequent thymomas and thymic carcinoma types, the differential diagnoses, as well as the difficulties for the panel to reproducibly assess on slides, stage, for some cases.
AB - The RYTHMIC network, supported by the French National Cancer Institute is dedicated to the management of patients with thymic epithelial tumors through regional and national multidisciplinary tumor boards. Tumor board decisions are based on the initial pathology diagnoses. However, following clinical inclusion in the network, a central pathology review is organized, implicating a panel of pathologists, for histotype and stage classification, which is different from a classical second opinion from pathologist to pathologist for a difficult case. Thanks to the participation of all French pathologists, more than 1000 cases have been reviewed by the panel. The aim of this review is to share with the French pathology community, the experience of the group. It underlines the importance of macroscopy and surgeon-pathologist involvement to allow a good central review, the main histopathological and immunophenotypical patterns of the most frequent thymomas and thymic carcinoma types, the differential diagnoses, as well as the difficulties for the panel to reproducibly assess on slides, stage, for some cases.
KW - Immunohistochemistry
KW - RYTHMIC
KW - Stage
KW - Thymic carcinoma
KW - Thymoma
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098587981&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.annpat.2020.11.002
DO - 10.1016/j.annpat.2020.11.002
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 33309329
AN - SCOPUS:85098587981
SN - 0242-6498
VL - 41
SP - 154
EP - 165
JO - Annales de Pathologie
JF - Annales de Pathologie
IS - 2
ER -