[Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis (author's transl)].
The indications for thymectomy in the treatment of myasthenia gravis have changed over the years. Now it is considered in all but the mildest forms and in the elderly that are kept under medical management; 129 patients were treated surgically, 57 males and 78 females; respectively 30 and 17 per cent had a tumour and the average age was 35 years. The operation was carried out through a median sternotomy with no operative deaths but 3 late deaths and 70 per cent were improved or in remission.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000906:Antibodies / Q000032:analysis; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D011182:Postoperative Care; D013249:Sternum / Q000601:surgery; D013934:Thymectomy / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery
D000906:Antibodies
La thymectomie dans le traitement de la myasthénie grave.