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Is Thymectomy Necessary in Nonmyasthenic Patients with Early Thymoma?

Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2013
BackgroundIn thymoma patients without myasthenia gravis, it is debatable whether thymectomy should be performed in addition to thymomectomy, the procedure in which the thymoma alone is resected.
Yen-Chiang Tseng, Chien-Sheng Huang, Wen-Hu Hsu   +2 more
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Effect of thymectomy in elderly patients with non-thymomatous generalized myasthenia gravis

Journal of Neurology, 2019
Whether thymectomy is beneficial in elderly patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) is unclear. Thus, we assessed whether conducting thymectomy in MG patients aged ≥ 50 years is beneficial.
Seung Woo Kim, Young-Chul Choi, Seung Min Kim   +2 more
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Extended Transsternal Thymectomy

Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 2010
The two primary indications for thymectomy are the treatments of patients with thymoma and patients with myasthenia gravis. Several different methods have been described to remove the thymus gland, including transcervical-transsternal "maximal" thymectomy, extended transsternal thymectomy, classic transsternal thymectomy, (extended) transcervical ...
Vincent C, Daniel, Cameron D, Wright
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Complete Thoracoscopic Thymectomy (cT-Thymectomy)

2012
In “complete thoracoscopic thymectomy” (cT-Thymectomy), “c” indicates that the surgical procedure is carried out entirely by means of endoscopy (closed chest). The operation is usually approached from the left but can be approached bilaterally if necessary.
Rolf G. C. Inderbitzi, Ralph Alexander Schmid   +1 more
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[Thymectomy].

Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery, 2019
Extended thymectomy reported by Masaoka in 1981 is a standard surgical treatment in patients with myasthenia gravis. Thoracoscopic thymectomy, which could be less invasive, has been widely accepted for an anterior mediastinal lesion in addition to the conventional median sternotomy approach.
Masayoshi, Inoue, Hiroaki, Tsunezuka
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Thymectomy in Myasthenia Gravis

JAMA, 1964
EXPERIENCE WITH THYMECTOMY for myasthenia gravis at Massachusetts General Hospital was fully described in 1960. 1 Since then, several changes have been made in our postoperative regimen. As a result, patients have shown a smoother and more comfortable postoperative course and mortality has been reduced.
R S, SCHWAB, E W, WILKINS, J M, HEAD, H, PONTOPPIDAN, H R, VIETS   +4 more
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Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis

The American Journal of Surgery, 1983
Thymectomy was performed on 249 patients with myasthenia gravis between 1957 and 1981. During a follow-up period that ranged from 2 months to 24 years (mean 7.5 years), the remission rate for the entire group was 51 percent, and an additional 36 percent had improvement (87 percent benefited). In those 51 patients with thymoma, the remission rate was 37
D G, Mulder, C, Herrmann, J, Keesey, H, Edwards   +3 more
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Thymectomy in newborn pigs

Journal of Surgical Research, 1965
Summary The effects of neonatal thymectomy were studied in the pig. No differences were found in the pattern of rejection of allografts of skin or in the production of antibody in response to Salmonella pullorum antigen between control animals and animals that underwent total thymectomy within 48 hours of birth.
C, PESTANA, G A, HALLENBECK, R G, SHORTER   +2 more
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Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis

The American Journal of Surgery, 1960
Abstract 1. 1. Myasthenia gravis appears to be related to an abnormality of the thymus. 2. 2. A significant number of patients with myasthenia gravis benefit from thymectomy. 3. 3. After thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, about one-third of patients are much improved, one-third somewhat improved and one-third unimproved. 4. 4.
M M, MUSSELMAN, J W, PORTER
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A Method of Thymectomy in Macaques

Journal of Medical Primatology, 1983
The aim of this study was to develop an operation for total thymectomy suitable for nonhuman primates. The thymus was removed from 24 macaque monkeys from fetal to adult life by a cervicothoracotomy and blunt gauze dissection. Mean wet weight of the thymus rose from 150 mg (range 50‐250 mg) in fetal animals to 2.5 gm (range 0.3‐4.2 gm) in prepubertal ...
D L, Healy, J, Bacher, G D, Hodgen
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