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Original Articles: General Thoracic

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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Strasbourg University Hospital, 1 Place de l'Hôpital, Nouvel Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, 670091 France

(Email: pierre-emmanuel.falcoz@wanadoo.fr).

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In the present article, Cheng and associates [1] seek to address the interesting and currently debated question of the accurate diagnostic tests for myasthenia gravis (MG). Indeed, it contributes to a better understanding of the close relation between an accurate early diagnosis and optimum clinical benefit from thymectomy during the course of MG.

In an elegant cohort comparative study, the authors sought to analyze the protein spectra in MG patients. They performed a proteome-wide search for potential serum protein diagnostic markers for MG using surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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