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Findings on CT scan suggestive of MG are mostly thymic masses such as thymic hyperplasia and thymoma.

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  • CT scan may be helpful in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
  • Findings on CT scan suggestive of MG are mostly thymic masses.
  • So many studies suggested a relationship between myasthenia gravis and thymus. This disease mostly occurs in patients with thymic hyperplasia and thymoma and the removal of thymus can reduce the clinical symptom of the patients.
  • Based on this fact, detection of these thymic masses is very important in management of myasthenia gravis.[1][2][3][4][5]
  • CT scan is very sensitive in identifying mediastinal masses but it’s not specific and it cannot differentiate thymomas from nonthymomatous masses.[6]

References

  1. Wechsler AS, Olanow CW (August 1980). "Myasthenia gravis". Surg. Clin. North Am. 60 (4): 931–45. PMID 7423369.
  2. Elias SB, Appel SH (July 1979). "Current concepts of pathogenesis and treatment of myasthenia gravis". Med. Clin. North Am. 63 (4): 745–57. PMID 89275.
  3. Mintz S, Petersen SR, MacFarland D, Petajan J, Richards RC (December 1980). "The current role of thymectomy for myasthenia gravis". Am. J. Surg. 140 (6): 734–7. PMID 7457692.
  4. Cohn HE, Solit RW, Schatz NJ, Schlezinger N (December 1974). "Surgical treatment in myasthenia gravis. A 27 year experience". J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 68 (6): 876–85. PMID 4421048.
  5. Fraser K, Simpson JA, Crawford J (May 1978). "The place of surgery in the treatment of myasthenia gravis". Br J Surg. 65 (5): 301–4. PMID 647191.
  6. Brown LR, Muhm JR, Sheedy PF, Unni KK, Bernatz PE, Hermann RC (January 1983). "The value of computed tomography in myasthenia gravis". AJR Am J Roentgenol. 140 (1): 31–5. doi:10.2214/ajr.140.1.31. PMID 6600322.

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