PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - F Puglisi
AU  - N Finato
AU  - L Mariuzzi
AU  - C Marchini
AU  - G Floretti
AU  - C A Beltrami
TI  - Microscopic thymoma and myasthenia gravis.
AID  - 10.1136/jcp.48.7.682
DP  - 1995 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 682--683
VI  - 48
IP  - 7
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/48/7/682.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/48/7/682.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol1995 Jul 01; 48
AB  - A rare case of microscopically sized thymoma is described in a 56 year old man suffering from myasthenia gravis. Histological examination of the surgically removed thymus showed the presence of several epithelial thymoma-like islands. As controls, 100 thymuses obtained from consecutive necropsies were sampled: 4% of these cases showed epithelial islands. This case is further proof that "microscopic thymoma" is a true pathological entity and suggests that every thymus removed from myasthenic patients in which there is no macroscopic evidence of thymoma should be examined microscopically on serial sections.