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Paediatric Imaging

Thymus, rebound enlargement

The thymus shrinks in response to steroids, surgery, stress or infection. When it recovers, following removal of the stress, there is often a rebound enlargement. This can cause difficulty in the older child, following chemotherapy for neoplasia, where the enlarged thymus cannot be differentiated from recurrent disease without further imaging and sometimes biopsy.

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