Open AccessMyasthenia gravis with thymic epithelial tumour: a retrospective analysis of a Japanese database
Author(s) -
Jun Nakajima,
Meinoshin Okumura,
Motoki Yano,
Hiroshi Date,
Takuya Onuki,
Masayuki Haniuda,
Yoshifumi Sano
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1093/ejcts/ezv380
Subject(s) - thymoma , myasthenia gravis , thymic carcinoma , medicine , pathological , stage (stratigraphy) , gastroenterology , antibody , retrospective cohort study , pathology , immunology , biology , paleontology
Myasthenia gravis (MG) has been reported to correlate with earlier stage and Type B thymomas by the World Health Organization classification. We analysed a large database of clinical characteristics of patients with MG and thymic epithelial tumours to elucidate whether the severity of MG affected postoperative survival of those with thymic epithelial neoplasms.
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