A case of malignant lymphoma and myasthenia gravis.
A 25-year-old man with myasthenia gravis and a non-Hodgkin lymphoma stage III B involving the thymus, is reported. The association myasthenia gravis and non-Hodgkin lymphoma has not been described previously. Treatment with chlormetin, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone (MOPP) resulted in complete remission of both the myasthenic symptoms and the malignant lymphoma.
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D009469:Neuromuscular Junction / Q000503:physiopathology; D009435:Synaptic Transmission