Comparative clinical features and immune responses after extended thymectomy for myasthenia gravis in patients with atrophic versus hyperplastic thymus

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 212-218

  Chen, Zhenguang ^a   Luo, Honghe ^a   Peng, Yanwen ^a   Cai, Lie ^a   Zhang, Jinli ^b   Su, Chunhua ^a   Zou, Jianyong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CD19 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS ATROPHY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ATROPHY; B-CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650470389     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.08.041     Document Type: Article

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