title: [Surgical therapy of myasthenia gravis and thymoma].
abstract: Between 1986 and 1992 eighteen patients underwent transsternal radical thymectomy at the Department of Surgery of the RWTH Aachen. Operation was indicated for myasthenia gravis (n = 14) or suspect of thymoma (n = 4). Patients with myasthenia were preoperatively classified according to Osserman and postoperatively with respect to their clinical status and drug dosages. Patients with thymoma were classified according to Masaoka. After a mean follow-up period of 43.6 months 76.9% of the patients with myasthenia demonstrated a significant improvement. All patients with thymoma were free of recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Klinik, Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bertram
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Treutner
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Winkeltau
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Schumpelick
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D013934:Thymectomy; D013945:Thymoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Chirurgische Therapie bei Myasthenia gravis und Thymom.