Results of transcervical thymectomy for myasthenia gravis in 100 consecutive patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 230, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 555-561

  Calhoun, Royce F ^a   Ritter, Jon H ^a   Guthrie, Tracey J ^a   Pestronk, Alan ^a   Meyers, Bryan F ^a   Patterson, G Alexander ^a   Pohl, Mary S ^a   Cooper, Joel D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVOLUTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NECK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033498339     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199910000-00011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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