Myasthenia with Enlargement of the Thymus Gland

Gigantic enlargement of the thymus gland.

True massive thymic hyperplasia is a very rare entity, characterized by an increase in the size and weight of the thymus gland, without an apparent cause. Surgery has been required in patients with severe respiratory distress. We present an idiopathic true massive thymic hyperplasia in a 5-month-old boy.

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Prostate Gland Enlargement

The prostate gland is about the size and shape of a walnut and weighs in at around one ounce. Women seem to know more about this little gland than men do. About 11% of men don't know that they have this gland in their body. Only 15% of men have ever heard of the term prostatitis. Of the men who do know about prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate), about 16% of them think that this condition...

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...

Compensatory Hypertrophy of Thymus Gland

We recently have reported several studies concerning the marked stimulation of growth and regeneration that occurs in the thymus gland of rats, of any age, following double suprarenalectomy (1-3). We showed that, as the result of such a procedure, marked hyperplasia of the involuting thymus, with enlargement of the same, occurs with great constancy. In line with these studies, we undertook a se...