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Continuous muscle fiber activity, peripheral neuropathy, and thymoma
Author(s) -
GarcíaMerino A.,
Cabello A.,
Mora J. S.,
Liaño H.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.410290218
Subject(s) - thymoma , medicine , myasthenia gravis , thymectomy , sural nerve , muscle biopsy , peripheral neuropathy , biopsy , peripheral , muscle fibre , nerve biopsy , pathology , endocrinology , skeletal muscle , diabetes mellitus
Two patients, one of them with myasthenia gravis, presented symptoms of continuous muscle fiber activity syndrome before discovery of a thymoma. Peripheral neuropathy was present in both patients, with axonal and demyelinating lesions in sural nerve biopsy. The syndrome remained unchanged or whose after thymectomy. Both patients died of associated complications.

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