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CT scans of the patient showing thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma with a closed relationship of proximal structures.
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The enhanced CT scan showed that the soft tissue mass enclosed proximal structures, including lung tissue, pulmonary vein, pericardium, and phrenic nerve (Figure 1).
The three-dimensional reconstruction of this mass showing the relative positional relationship between the mass and the surrounding tissues.
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The mass clearly invaded the pericardium and right middle lobe (RML) tissue, with an extremely closed relationship between the pulmonary vein as well as the phrenic nerve (Figure 2).
The patient underwent surgery through uniport video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS).
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The patient underwent surgery to resect the mass through UniProt video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS) (Figure 3).