[Rythmic-pathology: the French national pathology network for thymic epithelial tumours]

Abstract

Epithelial thymic tumours are rare and sometimes difficult to classify. Since 2010, the French National Cancer Institute supports a French national network, called Rythmic, devoted to the treatment of these tumours through regional and national multidisciplinary conferences using the web. All the tumours are secondarily reviewed by a French pathology national network for classification and staging. This review focuses on the presentation of the Rythmic network, and mainly to the Pathology review process.

Keywords: Carcinome thymique; Epithelial thymic tumors; Histopathologie; Histopathology; Stade; Stage; Thymic carcinoma; Thymoma; Thymome; Tumeurs épithéliales thymiques.