CRP and thymoma: Indeed, patients with the highest CRP serum concentrations (up to 18.5 mg/dL) had B3 or TC histology and were in Masaoka-Koga stages III and IV (Patient 1: male, 40.8 years, B3 thymoma, stage IV, recurrence at 137 months, alive, CRP 18.5 mg/dL; Patient 2: male, 52.6 years, TC, stage III, recurrence at 30 months, alive, CRP 9.30 mg/dL; Patient 3: male, 62.8 years, TC, stage IV, no recurrence, alive, CRP 10.45 mg/dL; Patient 4: male, 47.1 years, TC, stage IV, no recurrence, alive, CRP 18.1 mg/dL; Figure 1A, 1B).