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Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis
Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1976Thymectomy was performed on 31 patients with myasthenia gravis. Four of them had thymoma, 17 hyperplasia and 9 had normal thymic histology on microscopy. Discontinuation of anticholinergic medication together with tracheostomy, artificial ventilation and intensive observation were essential in the postoperative management.
S, Mattila, R, Pirskanen, J, Heinonen
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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.
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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.
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Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis
The American Journal of Surgery, 1960Abstract 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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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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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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Extended Transsternal Thymectomy
Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 2010The 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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EXTENDED TRANSSTERNAL THYMECTOMY
Chest Surgery Clinics of North America, 1996Extended transsternal thymectomy allows for the safe excision of the gross thymus as well as perithymic and anterior mediastinal fat and lymphatic tissue that may harbor foci of aberrant thymus. Additionally, it permits direct inspection of each pulmonary hilum for suspicious thymic remnants and even small thymomas not visualized on the CT scan.
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Thymectomy in Myasthenia Gravis
JAMA, 1964EXPERIENCE 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.
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Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis
The American Journal of Surgery, 1983Thymectomy 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
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Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1968Excerpt The report from Blalock, Mason, Morgan, and Rivin in 1939 (1) of thymectomy for patients with myasthenia gravis and thymoma created hope that this was the therapeutic answer for this diseas...
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Thymectomy in the Treatment of Myasthenia*
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, 1980Thymectomy has been performed in 69 patients, 58 females and 11 males, age range 14 to 70 years, with a maximum in females between 20 to 30 years. Twenty-seven percent of the patients were older than 40 years. Considerable improvement resulting from remission and partial remission occurred in 89% of females and in about 50% of males, the figure for ...
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