Open AccessClinical outcomes of myasthenia gravis with thymoma and thymic hyperplasia undergoing extended transsternal thymectomy: A single-center experience
Author(s) -
Surezarbaghi,
Mohammad Reza AmiriNikpour,
Rahim Mahmodlou,
Nasim Arjmand,
Yousef Rezaei
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
north american journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1541
pISSN - 1947-2714
DOI - 10.4103/1947-2714.170608
Subject(s) - thymoma , thymectomy , medicine , myasthenia gravis , prednisolone , surgery , pyridostigmine , single center , ptosis , prednisone , hyperplasia , thymic carcinoma , dysphagia
Despite the widespread use of thymectomy in myasthenia gravis (MG) patients, it has remained controversial as to whether this procedure is of a similar efficacy and clinical outcome among MG patients with thymoma and thymic hyperplasia.