[Clinico-morphological characteristic of the thymus gland changes in myasthenia and their surgical treatment].

Histological investigation of thymic gland was performed in 155 patients with various forms of myasthenia. Two variants of histological changes in thymic gland were revealed. In presence of the first variant performance of thymectomy was effective in 81.

[Comparative characteristics of surgical treatment of thymoma with the clinical signs of myasthenia and without them].

Analysis of results of surgical treatment of 72 patients with thymoma, including 49 in combination with clinical signs of myasthenia and 23 without them, is presented. In group of patients with symptoms of myasthenia the women aged from 30 to 39 yrs prevailed and among those who had not--the men, aged from 40 to 49 yrs. Histologic investigation in 29 (59.