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Real Time In Vivo Tracking of Thymocytes in the Anterior Chamber of the Eye by Laser Scanning Microscopy
Published on: October 2, 2018
Long-term follow up of thymus in patients with myasthenia gravis
Masashiro Sugawara1, Chizu Wada, Satoshi Okawa
1Department of Neurology, Akita University, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan. masashir@gipc.akita-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
We examined transversely the thymus of 33 myasthenia gravis (MG) patients followed up for more than 5 years and found three thymomas. One was found 21 years after thymoma resection (Masaoka I, WHO Type B2 thymoma) and extended thymectomy. The other two were non-thymomatous at onset, and they were not treated with extended thymectomy. Therapeutic guidelines should mention the importance of follow-up in MG thymus.
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