Successful Pregnancies after the Treatment of a Thymic Carcinoid

الملخص EN

The present report describes the case of a woman diagnosed with an adrenocorticotropic hormone- (ACTH-) secreting thymic carcinoid associated with Cushing’s syndrome.

Treatment consisted of tumour resection and 131-I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) therapy.

In spite of her iatrogenic menopausal state she twice became pregnant and delivered two healthy babies but developed recurrences during both pregnancies.

The last recurrence presented as a primary breast cancer.

Despite poor prognosis our patient survived for eleven years.

To our knowledge this is the first report of successful pregnancy and delivery in a patient with a thymic carcinoid.