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Thymolipoma associated with myasthenia gravis
S Takamori1, A Hayashi, K Tayama
1First Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal : SCJ
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
In a 29-year-old woman with myasthenia gravis and no visible mediastinal mass, the resected thymus was found to contain a small thymolipoma. Relief of the neuromuscular symptoms followed thymectomy. A very small thymolipoma may be associated with myasthenia gravis even if the content of though thymic tissue is low.