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MASSIVE BENIGN THYMOMA PRESENTING AS OCULAR MYASTHENIA
Author(s) -
GOADSBY P. J.,
ADAMS R. W.,
LANCE J. W.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1989.tb00259.x
Subject(s) - thymoma , thymectomy , medicine , myasthenia gravis , ocular myasthenia , thymus neoplasm , surgery , dermatology
A case of ocular myasthenia was found to be associated with a massive benign thymoma and responded to its removal. This is an exception to the generalisation that larger tumours of the thymus gland are more likely to be malignant and that thymectomy is not the treatment of choice for ocular mysthenia.