The characteristics of thymoma with myasthenia gravis: A 28-year experience
| Autor: | Toshikatu Taniki, Yasumasa Monden, Akira Masaoka, Kazuya Nakahara, Tadashi Uyama, Yasunaru Kawashima, Yoshitaka Fujii, Jumpei Hashimoto |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Cell type Thymoma Adolescent Polygonal cell Gastroenterology hemic and lymphatic diseases Internal medicine Myasthenia Gravis medicine Humans Stage (cooking) Child Survival analysis Aged Neoplasm Staging business.industry Thymus Neoplasm Respiratory disease Infant Thymus Neoplasms General Medicine Middle Aged Prognosis medicine.disease Myasthenia gravis Oncology Child Preschool Female Surgery Neoplasm Recurrence Local business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Surgical Oncology. 38:151-154 |
| ISSN: | 1096-9098 0022-4790 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/jso.2930380305 |
| Popis: | 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 patients this cell type predominated), and the differentiation of epithelial cells in the tumor was more advanced in the group with MG than in the group without MG. Furthermore, the clinical stage of thymoma was earlier, the recurrence rate was lower, and the survival curve was better in the group with MG than in the group without MG. These findings suggest that the thymoma with MG is less malignant than that without MG. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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