Development of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus After Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 141 (2) , 253-255
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1981.00340020115028
Abstract
• Systemic lupus erythematosus developed in an 18-year-old man three years after thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. The patient had considerable defects in suppressor cell function that seemed to be partially reversed in vitro by the addition of thymic hormone. (Arch Intern Med 141:253-255, 1981)This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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