A case of thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis with anti-MuSK antibodies

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 372-375

  Ito, Ai ^a   Sasaki, Ryogen ^a   Ii, Yuichiro ^a   Nakayama, Shigeho ^b   Motomura, Masakatsu ^c   Tomimoto, Hidekazu ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Matsusaka City Hospital   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti acetylcholine receptor antibody; Anti muscle specific receptor tyrosine kinase antibody; Extended thymothymectomy; Myasthenia gravis (MG); Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; MUSCLE SPECIFIC RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MUSK PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHAGIA; EXTERNAL OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; FACIAL NERVE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PTOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY;

AUTOANTIBODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84894668280     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.53.372     Document Type: Article

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