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• Thymoma Database, Forum, Chat Room and other information (an excellent collection of helpful resources)
• Oncolink, University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center (search on thymoma, for example)
• Value of thymectomy in myasthenia gravis by W. A. Nix, Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie, Universitätskliniken, Mainz
• Thymectomy - A Form of Treatment for Myasthenia Gravis from the MGA of the U.K.
• Thymoma and Myasthenia Gravis by Dr. Nick Willcox of the U.K.
• EXTENDED THYMECTOMY FOR MYASTHENIA-GRAVIS PATIENTS - A 20-YEAR REVIEW by MASAOKA-A, YAMAKAWA-Y, NIWA-H, et al.
• Thymus Evaluation from Washington University - St. Louis
• Published Journal papers related to thymectomy (An attempt was made to collect thymectomy related papers from a wide variety of countries.)
  
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12474667&dopt=Abstract
  Medicina (Kaunas) 2002;38(6):611-6
  [Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with myasthenia gravis]
  Rastenyte D, Vaitkus A, Neverauskas R, Pauza V.
  Kauno medicinos universiteto Kardiologijos institutas, Sukileliu 17, 3007 Kaunas.
  

Intern Med J. 2002 Aug;32(8):365-6.
Intern Med J 2002 Aug;32(8):367-71
Video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis.
Wright GM, Barnett S, Clarke CP.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12040952&dopt=Abstract
Erratum in: S Afr Med J 2002 Jun;92(6):400
Problems in the optimal management of myasthenia gravis patients--a prospective clinical survey at Kalafong Hospital.
Mafojane NA, Bill PL, Lotz BP.
Department of Neurology, Kalafong Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11932165&dopt=Abstract
Thirteen years follow-up after radical transsternal thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. Do short-term results predict long-term outcome?
Roth T, Ackermann R, Stein R, Inderbitzi R, Rosler K, Schmid RA.
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, 3030 Bern, Switzerland.

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Ann Thorac Surg 2000 Nov;70(5):1656-61
Pulmonary function after thoracoscopic thymectomy versus median sternotomy for myasthenia gravis.
Ruckert JC, Walter M, Muller JM.
Department of Surgery, Humboldt University Medical School (Charite), Berlin, Germany. jens-c.rueckert@charite.de

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8686031&dopt=Abstract
Ugeskr Laeger 1996 May 20;158(21):2963-5
[Thymectomy in myasthenia gravis]
Ainsworth AP, Jochumsen KM, Pedersen JJ.
Thorax-karkirurgisk afdeling T, Odense Universitetshospital.

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Thorax 1996 Feb;51(2):193-6
Surgical treatment of myasthenia gravis in two major Middle East teaching hospitals: factors influencing outcome.
Hassantash SA, Ashbaugh DG, Verrier ED, Maier RV.
Department of Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7941959&dopt=Abstract
Acta Neurol Scand 1994 Jul;90(1):56-66
Exacerbation of myasthenia gravis after removal of thymomas.
Somnier FE.
Department of Neurology, National Hospital (Rigshospitalet), Hellerup, Denmark.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1944680&dopt=Abstract
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 1991 Nov 2;135(44):2089-94
[The effect of thymectomy in patients with myasthenia gravis without thymoma; a statistical analysis]
De Vries SO, Oosterhuis HJ, Tolboom J, Schaafsma W.
Academisch Ziekenhuis, Kliniek voor Neurologie, Groningen.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9891741&dopt=Abstract
Adv Surg 1999;32:105-33
Thymectomy in the integrated management of myasthenia gravis.
Wilkins KB, Bulkley GB.
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

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Ann Surg 1997 Sep;226(3):324-34; discussion 334-5
Extended cervicomediastinal thymectomy in the integrated management of myasthenia gravis.
Bulkley GB, Bass KN, Stephenson GR, Diener-West M, George S, Reilly PA, Baker RR, Drachman DB.
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2001 Sep;122(3):562-8
Thymectomy in the treatment of ocular myasthenia gravis.
Roberts PF, Venuta F, Rendina E, De Giacomo T, Coloni GF, Follette DM, Richman DP, Benfield JR.
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento 95817, Calif, USA. peter.roberts@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

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