Myasthenia gravis CT
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Overview
Findings on CT scan suggestive of MG are mostly thymic masses such as thymic hyperplasia and thymoma.
CT
CT
- 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
References
- ↑ Wechsler AS, Olanow CW (August 1980). “Myasthenia gravis”. Surg. Clin. North Am. 60 (4): 931–45. PMID 7423369.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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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