Study on the relationship between the pathology of thymoma and myasthenia gravis / 临床神经病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship between the latest WHO criteria of thymic epithelial tumours(TET) and the incidence of MG,Osserman classfication and postoperative prognosis of myasthenia gravis(MG). Methods To analyse the pathological sections of 105 patients with thymoma from 1974 to 2000 with Levine-Rosai's clinicopathological classification,traditional histological classification and WHO classification respectively,and analyse and compare their relevance with the incidence,Osserman classification and postoperative prognosis of MG.Results (1)The cases with benign tumors of type A and type AB were more than those of type B.(2)Type B3 more likely accompanied MG than type A and type AB (P