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Muscle involvement in myasthenia gravis: Expanding the clinical spectrum of Myasthenia-Myositis association from a large cohort of patients.
Autoimmun Rev
April 2020
Neuromuscular and Rare Disease Center, Department of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Sensory Organs (NESMOS), SAPIENZA University, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Myastenia-Inflammatory Myopathy (MG-IM) association has been described in less than 50 cases, as isolated reports or in few case series. In most cases, MG and IM onset occur simultaneously even if the overlapping clinical manifestations could lead to delay the diagnosis in the early stage of disease. In these cases, thymic pathology is present in more than 50% of cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrognostic factors after treatment for iterative thymoma recurrences: A multicentric experience.
Lung Cancer
December 2019
Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli-IRCCS, Roma, Italy; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
Objectives: Thymomas are rare neoplasms with a low recurrence rate, which are preferably surgically treated. Iterative thymoma surgery has not been well investigated yet. Study aim is to analyse prognostic factors after iterative recurrence treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHybrid endoscopic thymectomy: combined transesophageal and transthoracic approach in a survival porcine model with cadaver assessment.
Surg Endosc
September 2014
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4709-057, Braga, Portugal,
Background: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery thymectomy has been used in the treatment of Myastenia Gravis and thymomas (coexisting or not). In natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery, new approaches to the thorax are emerging as alternatives to the classic transthoracic endoscopic surgery. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and reliability of hybrid endoscopic thymectomy (HET) using a combined transthoracic and transesophageal approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Surgery for mediastinal tumor; by video-assisted thoracoscopic thymo-thymomectomy with sternal lifting].
Kyobu Geka
October 2012
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
The successful key of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for mediastinal tumor should be appropriate surgical approach according to the site of tumor and relationship between large vessels and tumor. We retrospectively reviewed VATS for mediastinal tumor for 2 years. Thirty-three patients underwent surgery for mediastinal tumor, 19 patients by VATS;12 thymo-thymomectomies (2 myastenia gravis with thymoma), 4 neurinomas, 3 cystic tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParaneoplastic extralimbic encephalitis associated with thymoma and myastenia gravis: three years follow up.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg
May 2013
Neurology Department, Bakırköy Research and Training Hospital for Neurologic and Psychiatric Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey.
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