Antibodies to acetylcholine receptor in patients with thymoma but without myasthenia gravis

1 February 1980

journal article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology

Vol. 30 (2) , 201
https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.30.2.201

Abstract

Antibodies to acetylcholine receptor were found in 3 of 11 patients with a thymoma removed by operation but without myasthenia gravis. Because myasthenia gravis may appear after removal of the thymoma, detection of antiacetylcholine receptor antibodies may have predictive value.

Keywords

ANTIBODIES
ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR
ANTIACETYLCHOLINE
RECEPTOR IN PATIENTS
PATIENTS WITH THYMOMA
REMOVED
MYASTHENIA
GRAVIS

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