J Korean Neurol Assoc.  1996 Mar;14(1):190-196.

Pathological Findings of Tumors at Thymus and Myasthenia Gravis

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  • 1Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine
  • 2Department of Neurology, Yonsei University College of Medicine

Abstract

We retrospectively studied 53 cases of thymic tumors diagnosed after thymectomy to clearfied the pathologic difference of thymic tumor associated with myasthenia gravis and without myasthenia gravis. Among them, there are 23 cases with myasthenia gravis; 19 among 36 thymomas(52.8%), 3 of 4 thymolipoma (75%) and 1 squamous cell carcinoma. Lymphoma and teratoma are not associated with myasthenia gravis. There is no significant difference in the prevalence of myasthenia gravis between types of the old traditional classification of thymoma. But according to the new Muller-Hermelink classification, about two-thirds of myasthenia gravis have the thymoma with cortical cell origin. The prevalence of myasthenia gavis were relatively low in the patients with thymoma of medullary or mixed type. The frequent association of myasthenia gravis was suggesting that the thymolipoma might be a variant of thymoma, cortical type.


MeSH Terms

Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Classification
Humans
Lymphoma
Myasthenia Gravis*
Prevalence
Retrospective Studies
Teratoma
Thymectomy
Thymoma
Thymus Gland*
Thymus Neoplasms
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