Thymectomy

11/01/2002 - "Thymectomy is considered the most effective treatment for achieving sustained improvement as well as remission in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG), and most neurologists favor the use of this procedure. "
01/01/2002 - "Early thymectomy carries the best results in Myasthenia Gravis and every effort should be made to shorten the preoperative duration for both thymomatous and nonthymomatous patients. "
01/01/2002 - "Early thymectomy carries the best results in Myasthenia Gravis and every effort should be made to shorten the preoperative duration for both thymomatous and nonthymomatous patients. "
01/01/1991 - "In recent years, thymectomy has gained increasing acceptance as the most effective treatment for acheiving sustained improvement in patients affected of myasthenia gravis. "
11/18/1990 - "Childhood myasthenia gravis gave the best results but thymectomy was beneficial in the combined group, in long-lasting myasthenia and in tumourous cases, too. "

06/01/2013 - "Paraneoplastic encephalopathy associated with thymoma is very rare, and symptoms can be improved by thymectomy. "
05/01/2011 - "Here we present the case report of a 70-year-old woman with invasive thymoma and simultaneous PRCA and Good's syndrome, who achieved complete PRCA remission after thymectomy."
06/01/2010 - "Despite the extreme rare concomitance of thymoma and PRCA, we report three consecutive cases, who experienced long-term complete remission of PRCA after extended thymectomy as their only therapy over a 6-year period. "
05/01/2009 - "Clinical and pathological data, complete remission rate as well as overall survival rates were retrospectively analyzed in a cohort of myasthenic patients who underwent extended thymectomy for thymoma between 1993 and 2006. "
02/01/2006 - "In conclusion, thymoma is an adverse prognostic factor for the MG patients who have experienced complete remission after thymectomy. "

01/01/2001 - "The beneficial effects of thymectomy are characterized by postoperative clinical improvement in most patients with moderate to severe preoperative myasthenic involvement and by a higher remission rate in patients with thymic hyperplasia and/or mild myasthenic symptoms."
09/01/2003 - "Univariate analysis and Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that variables such as sex (female), age at onset (below 40 years), thymectomy, and histological diagnosis of thymic hyperplasia were significantly associated with complete stable remission, whereas on multivariate analysis only age at onset below 40 years and thymectomy were confirmed."
03/01/2007 - "Thymic hyperplasia is prevalent in our SNMG patients and thymectomy may also be a therapeutic option to increase the probability of remission or improvement in SNMG. "
10/01/2005 - "The majority of cases who improved post-thymectomy had thymic hyperplasia on histology in both Nottingham (46%) and Cuban (61%) patients. "
11/01/2015 - "Multivariate analysis identified shorter disease duration (<12 months) (P = 0.021, HR = 0.50) and thymic hyperplasia (P = 0.038, HR = 0.48) as independent predictors of higher CSR rates in patients who underwent thymectomy. "

01/01/1990 - "A direct relationship was discovered between the efficacy of thymectomy and intensity of hyperplasia of the glandular lobules of the thymus. "
03/01/1999 - "Hyperplasia, requiring subtotal parathyroidectomy and transcervical thymectomy, was found in five cases (16.1%), all of which had gone undetected by localization studies when requested by the referring physicians. "
12/01/2015 - "Value of Prophylactic Cervical Thymectomy in Parathyroid Hyperplasia."
09/15/2015 - "Thymectomy revealed mild thymic nodular hyperplasia. "
07/01/2013 - "She underwent thymectomy, and histological examination revealed follicular hyperplasia. "

08/01/2001 - "We have found that this practice of thymectomy at an early stage in combination with genetic and effective radiological treatment can be effective for multiple endocrine neoplasm-type 1 patients."
01/01/1999 - "We consider a gold standard to be sternotomy followed by a tumor removal and extended thymectomy. "
09/01/1998 - "Immunological abnormalities improved after thymectomy in one case in which the tumor cells were confined to the thymus, but not the other with regional lymph node involvement, suggesting a causal role for the tumor. "
01/01/2006 - "A total of 96 thymectomy specimens were received during the study period (1992-2004), which consisted of 54 neoplasms and 42 benign lesions. "
10/01/2015 - "Total thymectomy with removal of the two tumors was performed via median sternotomy. "