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Different Characteristics of Thymomas With and Without Myasthenia Gravis

  
  
  
  
  

Different Characteristics of Thymomas With and Without Myasthenia Gravis

Annals of Surgical Oncology, 09/14/2011

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Yu L et al. – Myasthenia gravis (MG) seldom occurs in types A and C thymoma. MG of some thymoma patients was not caused by thymoma, but by the paraneoplastic thymus. The prognosis of thymomas with MG is similar to that without MG. The main cause of death is myasthenia crisis for thymoma patients with MG and stage IV and/or type C for thymoma patients without MG...read more

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