Thoracoscopic extended thymothymectomy for myasthenia gravis with aplastic anemia

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 328-331

  Nakamura, Hiroshige ^a   Miwa, Ken ^a   Adachi, Yoshin ^a   Fujioka, Shinji ^a   Haruki, Tomohiro ^a   Taniguchi, Yuji ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aplastic anemia; Myasthenia gravis; Thoracoscopic thymothymectomy; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

AGED; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG COMBINATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PATHOLOGY; THORACOSCOPY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; STEROIDS; THORACOSCOPY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 72049130278     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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