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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:409-410
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

M. Blair Marshall, MD

Department of Surgery, Thoracic Section, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

e-mail: blair.marshall@uphs.upenn.edu

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Thoracic surgeons agree that thymectomy is part of the standard treatment for nonthymomatous myasthenia gravis (MG). Beyond this, there remains controversy surrounding the necessary extent of thymectomy and the analysis of the data. The literature is replete with retrospective reviews of varying techniques that cannot be adequately analyzed owing to lack of uniform definitions and variables. The patient cohorts are not the same, the techniques are not the same, and there are few defined objective preoperative and . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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