Comparison of Conservative Treatment and Thymectomy on Myasthenia Gravis Outcome [1]
This systematic review of the literature evaluated reported outcomes of myasthenia gravis in patients with and without thymectomy. Among over 10,000 patients evenly divided between thymectomy and medication alone, the likelihood of remission was 31% vs 15%, OR 2.44.
Source name:
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
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Subspecialty(ies):
Thoracic [5]
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference:
Mediastinum [6]