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Original Articles: General Thoracic

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Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Blake 1570, Boston, MA 02114

(Email: wright.cameron@mgh.harvard.edu).

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The authors [1] describe the results of a "modified maximal thymectomy" in a series of patients who have myasthenia gravis with and without a thymoma. The authors claim the operation is analogous to a T-4 maximal thymectomy as described by Jaretzki and colleagues [2], but in reality it is a T-3b thymectomy. Although it is doubtful that there is much of a difference in outcome between these two "aggressive" thymectomy operations, a T-4 thymectomy implies a cervical incision and radical resection of all fat around the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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