Biological Markers and Pathology of Mediastinal Lymphomas Michael J. Kornstein Lymphomas account for about 15% of all primary mediastinal masses.22,26,31,59,111 About one-third of the lymphomas are Hodgkin and two-thirds are…
Thymic Tumors Thomas W. Shields Thymic tumors present almost exclusively in the anterior mediastinal compartment. Mullen and Richardson,205 in their collective review, reported that in the adult, thymic lesions accounted…
Benign Lymph Node Disease Involving the Mediastinum Jemi Olak Mediastinal lymphadenopathy is most commonly seen within the middle (visceral) compartment of the mediastinum. It occurs most often in the right…
Evaluation of Results of Thymectomy for Nonthymomatous Myasthenia Gravis Joshua R. Sonett Alfred Jaretzki III The role of thymectomy in the treatment of myasthenia gravis (MG) continues to generate significant…
Transcervical–Transsternal Maximal Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis Joshua R. Sonett Alfred Jaretzki III The combined transcervical–transsternal maximal thymectomy procedure (T-4), employing wide exposure in the neck and mediastinum, routinely and predictably…
Extended Transsternal Thymectomy Akira Masaoka At Osaka University, transsternal thymectomy through an upper sternal splitting approach had been performed from 1962 to 1970. Thereafter, stimulated by the reports from the…
Video-Assisted Thymectomy Mitchell J. Magee Michael J. Mack Neurologists and surgeons still debate the role of surgery in the management of myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder of neuromuscular transmission affecting…
Transcervical Thymectomy Smit Singla Joseph B. Shrager Transcervical thymectomy (TCT) was developed primarily for excision of the thymus gland in patients suffering from myasthenia gravis (MG). A relationship between MG…
Standard Thymectomy Francis C. Nichols Victor F. Trastek The thymus gland continues to present challenges to thoracic surgeons. The thymus is the site of origin of benign and malignant neoplasms;…
Pathophysiology of Myasthenia Gravis Jun Li Robert P. Lisak Myasthenia gravis (MG) is considered the prototypic autoimmune disease. Key features of the disease are muscle fatigability, decremental motor response to…
