[Re-operation for relapsed thymic carcinoid; report of a case].

A 68-year-old male patient underwent extended thymectomy via median sternotomy, 4 years ago. The pathological diagnosis was thymic atypical carcinoid having invaded the pleura and vessel. During follow-up, the new nodular shadows in the anterior mediastinum were pointed out by a chest computed tomography (CT) scan, 40×38 mm and 11×10 mm in size. We performed again tumor resection and resection of pleural disseminations. The patient was free of clinically evident recurrence 3 years after treatment.