Mass In Thymus, Trouble Swallowing, Chest Pain. Should I Worry About This?

Posted on Thu, 6 Sep 2012

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Question : hello I have a mass size of baseball in my thymus. I been having trouble swallowing when eating, food get stuck and ill need a drink to get it down, and been getting chest pain time to time. it been since XXXXXXX since I found about the mass. the doctors here said it is not doing anything so they where said come back in a year for ct scan. should i worry about this mass.

Answered by Dr. Sudhir (17 minutes later)

Hello,

Have your symptoms increased after you last saw the doctor?
What all investigations were done for this? Please provide details about the reports.
Was biopsy done for this?

Please provide these details, so that I can answer in better way.Regards.

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Follow up: Dr. Sudhir (9 minutes later)

yes the symptoms has increased and all they did for it was ct scans now biopsy. I am dealing with military doctorss

Answered by Dr. Sudhir (3 minutes later)

What was biopsy report?

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Follow up: Dr. Sudhir (10 minutes later)

sorry i XXXXXXX to write no biopsy just ct scans at the last one they said it was not growing so they are not going to do anything about it

Answered by Dr. Sudhir (16 minutes later)

But since the symptoms have increased, it's very likely that the mass has grown and is now causing pressure on your esophagus/food pipe.

Approach which can be undertaken now is to get a follow up CT scan done without waiting for long to see if at all mass has grown. Or other approach is to get biopsy of this done to relieve all anxiety.

Actually your symptoms make me think of this approach.Had there been no recent development of symptoms, I would have agreed with your doctor's approach.

Hope this answers your question.Please ask if there are doubts.Regards.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar