“Maximal” thymectomy for myasthenia gravis
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Video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy vs "maximal" thymectomy for myasthenia gravis.
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: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5223(19)35684-3