Inter-relationship among myasthenia gravis, WHO histology, and Masaoka clinical stage and effect on surgical methods in patients with thymoma: a retrospective cohort study
Author(s) -
Jianfei Shen,
Hongtao Tie,
Anyi Xu,
Dan Chen,
Dehua Ma,
Bo Zhang,
Chengchu Zhu,
Qingchen Wu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2018.05.30
Subject(s) - thymoma , medicine , thymectomy , myasthenia gravis , stage (stratigraphy) , histology , incidence (geometry) , surgery , cardiothoracic surgery , retrospective cohort study , gastroenterology , physics , optics , biology , paleontology
The aim of study is to analyze the inter-relationship among WHO histology, myasthenia gravis (MG) and Masaoka stage and to assess the feasibility of thoracoscopic surgery in thymoma patients.
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