Computed Tomography of the Thymus Gland in Myasthenia Gravis
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The role of the thymus in myasthenia gravis.
The experimental work discussed here supports the hypothesis that in the pathogenesis of MG the initial and essential steps take place within the thymus. Most if not all thymuses of MG patients contain B cells capable of producing AChR specific autoantibody along with appropriate stroma elements. Hyperplastic thymuses characteristically contain germinal centers with cellular complexes of AChR-p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Radiologica
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0284-1851,1600-0455
DOI: 10.3109/02841858709177370