Medically resistant juvenile myasthenia gravis following thymectomy: Role for FDG PET/CT

• Hoofdauteurs: Florence Ngu (Auteur), Michael Cardamone (Auteur), Dylan Wanaguru (Auteur), Bruce Currie (Auteur), Eva Alina Wegner (Auteur), Ian Andrews (Auteur), Walter Haindl (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: Elsevier, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Thymectomy is part of a multimodal treatment strategy for juvenile myasthenia gravis. Symptoms that persist following thymectomy may be due to residual or ectopic thymic tissue. We report the use of FDG PET/CT to locate residual thymic tissue following thymectomy in a 10 year old girl with acetylcho...