Massive benign thymoma presenting as ocular myasthenia

Goadsby, P.J.; Adams, R.W.; Lance, J.W.; Goadsby, P.J; Adams, R.W; Lance, J.W

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Massive benign thymoma presenting as ocular myasthenia

Goadsby, P.J.; Adams, R.W.; Lance, J.W.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 19(3): 257-258

1989

ISSN/ISBN: 0004-8291

PMID: 2775047

Document Number: 342158

A case of ocular myasthenia was found to be associated with a massive benign thymoma and responded to its removal. This is an exception to the generalisation that larger tumours of the thymus gland are more likely to be malignant and that thymectomy is not the treatment of choice for ocular myasthenia.