Video-assisted thymectomy for thymoma
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Subxiphoid video-assisted thorascopic thymectomy for thymoma.
A 42-year-old male presented with an 8-month history of a thymic tumor associated with myasthenia gravis (MG) (Figure 1). The clinical stage was IIa according to the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America (MGFA), an electromyography (EMG) study was abnormal, and serum acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody testing was positive. The patient’s clinical state was stable on pyridostigmine bromide,...
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state, "there were no changes in the control group." This suggests that data of the control group were not compared with the data of the study groups, but data of different time points were compared within the group. It is therefore of interest that the number of five patients is too low, and with nonparametric data it is hard to dem¬ onstrate any statistically significant change. Additionally,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1569-9293,1569-9285
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2010.254599a