An Improved Technique to Facilitate Transcervical Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis

"Maximal" thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. Surgical anatomy and operative technique.

Alfred Jaretzki, Marianne Wolff · PubMed · 1988 · 320 citations

Medicine, Surgery, Endocrine Surgery +7

THE TREATMENT OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS BY REMOVAL OF THE THYMUS GLAND

Alfred Blalock, Alex Harvey, Frank R. Ford et al. · Journal of the American Medical Association · 1941 · 215 citations

Medicine, Pathology, Surgery +10

Effects of Thymectomy in Myasthenia Gravis

Angelos E. Papatestas, Gabriel Genkins, Peter Kornfeld et al. · Annals of Surgery · 1987 · 203 citations

Medicine, Surgery, Endocrine Surgery +9

Distribution of thymic tissue at the anterior mediastinum

Akira Masaoka, Yutaka Nagaoka, Yahiro Kotake · Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 1975 · 157 citations

Medicine, Anatomy, Pathology +11

A Rational Approach to Total Thymectomy in the Treatment of Myasthenia Gravis

Alfred Jaretzki, Morrison C. Bethea, Marianne Wolff et al. · The Annals of Thoracic Surgery · 1977 · 105 citations · Full text

Medicine, Surgery, General Surgery +2