One half of cortical thymoma patients develop myasthenia gravis (MG), while 15% of MG
patients have thymomas. MG is a neuromuscular junction disease caused in 85% of the …

Background Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) thymectomy is an increasingly
utilized alternative to traditional open approaches for the resection of thymomas. Recent …

Background This study was designed to evaluate the feasibility of video-assisted
thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and to compare the oncologic outcomes of VATS with those of …

Thymectomy involves the removal of all the soft tissue in the pre-vascular plane of the
anterior mediastinum between the two phrenic nerves. Surgical success in controlling …

Background This aim of this study was to compare three approaches of extended
thymectomy for the treatment of early-stage thymomas, which included robot-assisted …

Background Complete thymectomy is the procedure of choice in the treatment of thymomas
and in treating selected patients with myasthenia gravis. Transsternal thymectomy is the …

Background To evaluate the surgical effect and prognostic factors of extended thymectomy
for myasthenia gravis (MG) patients with thymomas. Methods Patients with MG with …

Background The use of neuromuscular blocking agents is still controversial in myasthenic
patients but rocuronium could be useful after the introduction of sugammadex as a selective …

Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of robot‐
assisted thymectomy (RAT) in large anterior mediastinal tumors (AMTs)(size≥ 6 cm) …

OBJECTIVES To present the technique of single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic
mediastinal tumour resection, which includes limited thymectomy, extended thymectomy …