Postoperative infection after transsternal thymectomy for myasthenia gravis: A retrospective analysis of 125 cases

Surgery Today

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 808-810

  Machens, Andreas ^a,b   Emskötter, Thomas ^a   Busch, Christoph ^a   Izbicki, Jakob R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infection; Myasthenia; Thymectomy

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; EDROPHONIUM CHLORIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINITIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; STEROID THERAPY; THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYMECTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0031830301     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950050231     Document Type: Article

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