Of 134 patients with thymoma, 79 (59%) also had myasthenia gravis (MG). The thymoma with MG differed from that in the absence of MG in the following aspects: The ratio of lymphocytes to epithelial cells in the tumor was larger, the polygonal cell type was more prominent (i.e., in 83% of the MG patie
Histologic Classification of Thymoma and Its Relationship with Myasthenia Gravis and Clinical Stages of the Tumor
โ Scribed by Xinyun WANG; Yunxin CHEN; Aixiang WANG; Shumin ZHANG; Cuiyun SUN
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 88 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1610-1979
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