A reappraisal of the significance of thymic germinal centers in myasthenia gravis.
The morphology of thymuses removed from 16 cases of myasthenia gravis was studied in an attempt to correlate clinical response following thymectomy with the frequency of thymic germinal centers. In these patients, the presence of germinal centers in the thymus did not appear to influence response to thymectomy.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000473:pathology*; D011379:Prognosis; D012737:Sex Factors; D013934:Thymectomy; D013945:Thymoma / Q000601:surgery; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors