Extended cervicomediastinal thymectomy in the integrated management of myasthenia gravis.

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Published in Ann Surg on September 01, 1997

Authors

G B Bulkley1, K N Bass, G R Stephenson, M Diener-West, S George, P A Reilly, R R Baker, D B Drachman

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1: Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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