TY  - JOUR
AU  - de Perrot, Marc
AU  - Donahoe, Laura
PY  - 2017
TI  - Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis: what’s next?
JF  - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 9, No 2 (February 28, 2017): Journal of Thoracic Disease
Y2  - 2017
KW  - 
N2  - Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis (MG) has been performed since Alfred Blalock observed in 1936 that a young woman had remission of her myasthenia after a thymectomy for a cystic tumor of the thymus. Over the ensuing 80 years, multiple retrospective series of thymectomy for non-thymomatous MG have been published suggesting the potential benefit of thymectomy in patients with MG. However, the role of thymectomy in non-thymomatous MG remained a topic of controversy due to the absence of a randomized trial.
UR  - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/12020