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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:339-341. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.02.013
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Thymoma

Joseph B. Shrager, MD*

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

* Address correspondence to Dr Shrager, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Falk Building, 300 Pasteur Dr, Stanford, CA 94305-5407 (Email: shrager@stanford.edu).

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   Historical
 

1 Blalock A, Harvey AM, Ford FR, Lilienthal J Jr. The treatment of myasthenia gravis by removal of the thymus gland. JAMA 1941;117:1529–33.
2 Bernatz PE, Harrison EG, Clagett OT. Thymoma: a clinico-pathologic study. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1961;42:424–44.
3 Lattes R. Thymoma and other tumors of the thymus. An analysis of 107 cases. Cancer 1962;15:1224–60.
4 Wilkins EW Jr, Edmunds LH, Castleman B. Cases of thymoma at the Massachusetts General Hospital. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1966;52:322–30.


   Relationship to Myasthenia Gravis
 

5 Goldman AJ, Hermann C Jr, Kessey JC, Mulder DG, Brown WJ. Myasthenia gravis and invasive thymoma: a 20-year experience. Neurology 1975;25:1021–5.
6 Wilkins EW Jr, Castleman B. Thymoma: a continuing survey at the Massachusetts General Hospitals. Ann Thorac Surg 1979;28:252–6.
7 Monden Y, Uyama T, Taniki T, et al. The characteristics of thymoma with myasthenia gravis: a 28-year experience. J Surg Oncol 1988;38:151–4.
8 Somnir FE. Exacerbation of myasthenia gravis after removal of thymomas. Acta Neurol Scand 1994;90:56–66.
9 De Perrot M, Liu J, Bril V, et al. Prognostic significance of thymomas in patients with myasthenia gravis. Ann Thorac Surg 2002;74:1658–62.
10 Lopez-Cano M, Ponseti-Bosch JM, Espin-Basany E, Sanchez-Garcia JL, Armengol-Carrasco M. Clinical and pathologic predictors of outcome in thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis. Ann Thorac Surg 2003;76:1643–9.
11 Kondo K, Monden Y. Myasthenia gravis appearing after thymectomy for thymoma. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;28:22–5.
12 Kondo K, Monden Y. Thymoma and myasthenia gravis: a clinical study of 1,089 patients from Japan. Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:219–24.


   Other Paraneoplastic Syndromes
 

13 Souadjian JV, Enriquez P, Silverstein MN, Pepin JM. The spectrum of diseases associated with thymoma: coincidence or syndrome? Arch Intern Med 1974;134:374–9.
14 Welsh JS, Wilkins KB, Green R, et al. Association between thymoma and second neoplasms. JAMA 2000;283:1142–3.
15 Tarr PE, Lucey DR. Infectious complications of immunodeficiency with thymoma investigators. Good's syndrome: the association of thymoma . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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