TG and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: Actually, a positive correlation was still found between the angiogenesis condition of thymus and the Tg levels in the 9 TENIS syndrome patients when the contribution of the metastatic lesions in 4 patients with lymph node metastasis was tentatively excluded (Pearson r = 0.751, P = 0.020, n = 9).