Spinal blastomycosis--case report.
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Spinal blastomycosis--case report.
late-onset cases, has yet to be clarified.' 2 Olanow et al.3 reported excellent results with thymectomy in 12 patients with late-onset myasthenia gravis. One of these had a thymolipoma. This tumour has, to our knowledge, only been reported in the world literature as a cause for myasthenia gravis in two other cases.4 ' We therefore present the fourth case in this paper. In May 1980 a 61-year-old...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.47.2.217