Thymoma without myasthenia gravis: electrophysiological study after thymectomy.

an association between the sicca syndrome and inflammatory polyneuropathy, and lends further support to the hypothesis that, like the sicca syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus with which they are also associated,2 the inflammatory polyneuropathies have an auto-immune basis. Our patient developed a clinical neuropathy at a time when symptoms of the sicca syndrome were minimal. This finding illustrates the value of maintaining a high index of clinical suspicion, and of performing a serological auto-antibody screen in patients suspected of having an inflammatory polyneuropathy, but in whom there are no overt features of an associated disease. By this