Combined surgical management of myasthenia gravis and Graves' disease.
It is rare that a patient with Graves' disease has concomitant myasthenia gravis, despite the impression that both diseases have an autoimmune basis. Even less common is the opportunity to simultaneously approach both diseases surgically. We have described a patient meeting these qualifications, and have reviewed the pertinent principles of diagnostic and perioperative management of these two disease entities.
Goodman
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Department of Surgery, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile 36617.
Ferrara
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000601:surgery*; D013934:Thymectomy; D013965:Thyroidectomy