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Letters to the Editor

Surgery for isolated pleural recurrence from thymoma

Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650 Edegem, Antwerp, Belgium

Received 26 May 2008; accepted 10 June 2008.

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Key Words: Thymoma • Pleural • Recurrence

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We read with great interest the article of Lucchi et al. [1] on surgical treatment of pleural recurrence of thymoma. As such recurrences are rare we want to add an additional case we recently encountered [2]. Recurrent myasthenia gravis was observed in a 43-year-old patient 3 years after radical thymectomy for which a . . . [Full Text of this Article]