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Before the early 1970s, all neoplasms in the thy-mus were considered thymomas. In 1982, Snover, Levine and Rosai first postulated the pres-ence of primary thymic carcinomas.(1) Thymic carci-nomas are very rare in western countries, and consti-tute only 0.06 % of thymic neoplasms.(2) Approximately, 150 cases have been reported in the literature.(3-8) Only 20 cases were diagnosed at May