Myasthenia gravis treatment aims to minimize the effects of muscle weakness due to an immune process. It includes medications ...

BEHIND your chest wall sits a small fatty gland called the thymus. The blob-like organ was thought to be useless in adults – ...

In childhood, the thymus is known to play a critical role in developing the immune system. When the gland is removed at a ...

The Korea University team compared and analyzed the perioperative outcomes of 110 cases of robotic thymectomy.

A Joint research team (Prof. Jun-hee Lee, Hyun-koo Kim, Jin-Wook Hwang, Jae-Ho Chung, the Department of Thoracic and ...

In addition, compared with VATS thymectomy, conversion rate to multi-port surgery (0%) was lower, and the chest tube duration (1.32±0.75 days) and hospitalization period (2.52±1.00 days) were ...

Although most thymomas are benign (not cancerous), the thymus is usually removed (thymectomy) to prevent the potential spread of cancer. In fact, thymectomy seems to improve symptoms of myasthenia ...