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NEUROLOGY 1990;40:1828
© 1990 American Academy of Neurology

Indications for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis

Douglas J. Lanska, MD, MS

Departments of Neurology, Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, and the Sanders Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY.

Fifty-six board-certified neurologists with interest and expertise in myasthenia completed a survey of indications for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis. Thymectomy was advocated for virtually all patients with thymoma, for a variable subset of patients with generalized myasthenia without thymoma, and occasionally for selected patients with disabling ocular myasthenia.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Douglas J. Lanska, Department of Neurology, Albert B. Chandler Medical Center, University of Kentucky, 800 Rose Street, Lexington, KY 40536-0084.

Received May 14, 1990. Accepted for publication in final form May 14, 1990.




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