Indications for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis

Douglas J. Lanska

Neurology · 1990 · 130 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Fifty-six board-certified neurologists with interest and expertise in myasthenia completed a survey of indications for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis. Thymectomy was advocated for virtually all patients with thymoma, for a variable subset of patients with generalized myasthenia without thymoma, and occasionally for selected patients with disabling ocular myasthenia.