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Report of a Case of Myopathy Resembling Muscular Dystrophy and a Granulomatous Thymoma in an Adult Woman

Louis Kater, MD; Dirk W. van Toorn, MD

Arch Neurol. 1969;20(5):461-467.

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IN STUDYING cases of mediastinal tumors seen in the Institute of Pathology of the State University of Utrecht, a thymoma, which also showed signs of muscular dystrophy was seen in an adult woman. The association of a tumor of the thymus gland with diseases of muscles other than myasthenia gravis is rare.

Review of Literature

Giordano and Haymond¹ reported autopsy findings of a 57-year-old man with a thymoma for 14 years; in many muscles there were pathologic changes of acute and chronic myositis; there was also a focal myocarditis. This patient was reported with a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis. Berkeley Way and Hamilton-Paterson² described a 72-year-old man with a thymoma presumably for 55 years before onset of muscle weakness. Bonduelle and Bouyges³ described a patient with thymoma and polyneuritis who clinically showed the symptoms of myasthenia gravis; however, according to Oosterhuis,⁴ thrombosis of the basilar artery . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Utrecht, Netherlands

From the Department of Pathology, the State University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 26, 1968; accepted Jan 22, 1969.

Reprint requests to Institute of Pathology, 2 Pasteurstraat, Utrecht, Netherlands (Dr. Kater).

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