@article{JTD6692,
author = {Fangrui Wang and Zhitao Gu and Liewen Pang and Yuan Liu and Wentao Fang and Yi Shen and Keneng Chen and Hezhong Chen and Youbin Cui and Renquan Zhang and Lijie Tan and Chun Chen and Yin Li and Yangchun Liu and Yongyu Liu and Yongtao Han and Jianhua Fu and Zhentao Yu and Peng Zhang and Yun Wang and Xinming Zhou},
title = {Postoperative survival for patients with thymoma complicating myasthenia gravis—preliminary retrospective results of the ChART database},
journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
volume = {8},
number = {4},
year = {2016},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: It is so far not clear that how myasthenia gravis (MG) affected the prognosis of thymoma patients. The aim of this assay is to compare the postoperative survival between patients with thymoma only and those with both thymoma and MG.
Methods: The Chinese Alliance for Research in Thymomas (ChART) registry recruited patients with thymoma from 18 centers over the country on an intention to treat basis from 1992 to 2012. Two groups were formed according to whether the patient complicated MG. Demographic and clinical data were reviewed, patients were followed and their survival status were analyzed.
Results: There were 1,850 patients included in this study, including 421 with and 1,429 without MG. Complete thymectomy were done in 91.2% patients in MG group and 71.0% in non-MG group (P},
issn = {2077-6624}, url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/6692}
}