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2019
This chapter describes the endoscopic/surgical procedure for thymectomy and aortopexy as performed by the following approaches: open and thoracoscopic. The text includes an introduction that outlines the indications, risks, alternatives, essential steps, needed equipment, and variations in technique for the procedure in question.
Shawn D. St. Peter, Joseph A. Sujka
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This chapter describes the endoscopic/surgical procedure for thymectomy and aortopexy as performed by the following approaches: open and thoracoscopic. The text includes an introduction that outlines the indications, risks, alternatives, essential steps, needed equipment, and variations in technique for the procedure in question.
Shawn D. St. Peter, Joseph A. Sujka
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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
John Keesey +3 more
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A Method of Thymectomy in Macaques
Journal of Medical Primatology, 1983The 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 ...
John Bacher, Healy Dl, Gary D. Hodgen
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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.
George A. Hallenbeck +2 more
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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.
George A. Hallenbeck +2 more
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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.
Earle W. Wilkins +4 more
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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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1990
Surgery of the thymus in childhood is uncommon. Thymectomy may be indicated for true thymic hyperplasia, myasthenia gravis, thymic tumors (benign or malignant), thymic cysts, and other rare conditions. Thymic lesions may involve a normally located gland or ectopic thymic tissue.
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Surgery of the thymus in childhood is uncommon. Thymectomy may be indicated for true thymic hyperplasia, myasthenia gravis, thymic tumors (benign or malignant), thymic cysts, and other rare conditions. Thymic lesions may involve a normally located gland or ectopic thymic tissue.
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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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1990
There are many problems which the anaesthetist has to face when considering anaesthesia for thymectomy. Some of these are very special to thymectomy and others are more general. The commonest reason for thymectomy is as a part of treatment of myasthenia gravis, a condition which provides a challenge to the anaesthetist (Papatestas et al. 1987). Most of
Gabriel S. Shuster, T. Hilary Howells
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There are many problems which the anaesthetist has to face when considering anaesthesia for thymectomy. Some of these are very special to thymectomy and others are more general. The commonest reason for thymectomy is as a part of treatment of myasthenia gravis, a condition which provides a challenge to the anaesthetist (Papatestas et al. 1987). Most of
Gabriel S. Shuster, T. Hilary Howells
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