The Spectrum of Diseases Associated With Thymoma: Coincidence or Syndrome?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 1974, Pages 374-379

  Souadjian, Jacques V ^a   Enriquez, Pablo ^b   Silverstein, Murray N ^c   Pépin, Jean Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDISON DISEASE; ADENOMA; ANEMIA; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CANCER; CUSHING DISEASE; CYTOPENIA; DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROPENIA; ETIOLOGY; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID TUMOR; POLYMYOSITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THYMOMA;

ADDISON'S DISEASE; ADENOMA; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ANEMIA, PERNICIOUS; AORTIC ARCH SYNDROMES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DERMATOMYOSITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOPITUITARISM; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOSITIS; NEOPLASMS; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SYNDROME; THYMOMA; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 0016262628     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1974.00320200184029     Document Type: Article

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