title: Indications for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis.
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Neurology, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington.
authors: D J
authors: DJ
authors: Lanska
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000601:surgery*; D009462:Neurology; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D013934:Thymectomy; D014481:United States