Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis *Abstract of an address to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on Wednesday, 13th April, 1949.
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The thymus gland in the elderly, emaciated, dissecting-room subject is inconspicuous and, indeed, often difficult to make out. In younger subjects, who have not. died after a wasting disease, it is quite a conspicuous object, relatively greatest at birth, and absolutely at puberty. It is a flattish, bilobed, glandular mass lying in the anterior mediastinum and extending from the isthmus of the thyroid gland to the pericardium. It is composed mainly of lymphoid tissue in which are embedded the epithelial Hassall's corpuscles. Its normal function is still unknown. It was formerly believed to be enlarged in the condition known as status lymphaticus, but this is no longer regarded as a clinical entity. The clue to the association between the thymus gland and myasthenia gravis was provided by the observation that this disease
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دوره 66 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1949