Disseminated thymoma and myasthenia gravis: Dramatic rsponde to prednisone

✍ Scribed by R. Taylor; R. Tandan; J. Roberts; D. P. Dicostanzo; K. Sharma; T. Fries

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 435 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-5134
• DOI: 10.1002/ana.410250220

✦ Synopsis

Myasthenia gravis (MG) occurs in up to 44% of patients with thymoma; one-third of neoplasms are invasive at surgery {I}, and 1 to 15% show extrathoracic metastases [2}. The prognosis in patients having MG with invasive thymoma is worse. Thymectomy and radiotherapy are the mainstays of treatment for invasive thymoma (i], although few cases respond