Thymectomy in Pemphigus Foliaceus: A Thirty-Year Observation

Myasthenia gravis is an archetypal human autoimmune disease. Thymectomy proven effective by controlled clinical trials, and commonly part of the immunotherapeutic approach when myasthenia creates generalized weakness. Pemphigus foliaceus also but treated medically; thymectomy not therapy unless thymoma discovered. Autoimmune mechanisms, age distribution, response to in disorders are likely be different with thymoma. The concurrence disfiguring pemphigus one young patient without offered a natural experiment assess immunologic antibody responsiveness postoperatively, observe more than quarter century remission both following total surgery.