Comparative study of pre-operative thymic imaging and pathology in patients with myasthenia gravis

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 610-613

  Yasukawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Yoshikawa, Hiroaki ^b,d   Iwasa, Kazuo ^a   Yamada, Masahito ^a   Takamori, Masaharu ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kanazawa Nishi Hospital   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

201Tl SPECT; CT; myasthenia gravis; thymectomy; thymoma; thymus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; THYMOMA; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3142729152     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2003.10.023     Document Type: Article

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