Postoperative survival for patients with thymoma complicating myasthenia gravis—preliminary retrospective results of the ChART database

Abstract

Although MG is not an independent prognostic factor, the survival of patients with thymoma was superior when MG was present, especially in late Masaoka stage patients. Possible reasons included early diagnosis of the tumor, better histologic types, an overall higher R0 resection and less recurrence.