Thymectomy in ocular myasthenia gravis [4] (multiple letters)

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 740-741

  Lucchi, Marco ^a   Mussi, Alfredo ^a   Ricciardi, Roberta ^a   Angeletti, Carlo Alberto ^a   Roberts, Peter F ^b   Benfield, John R ^b   Venuta, Federico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; STEROID;

ANTIBODY TITER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037348746     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2003.253     Document Type: Letter

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