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  • Title: Pure RBC aplasia and myasthenia gravis. Coexistence of two diseases associated with thymoma.
    Author: Socinski MA, Ershler WB, Frankel JP, Albertini RJ, Ciongoli AK, Krawitt EL, Burns SL, Mangan KF.
    Journal: Arch Intern Med; 1983 Mar; 143(3):543-6. PubMed ID: 6338853.
    Abstract:
    Pure RBC aplasia (PRCA) and myasthenia gravis (MG) are occasionally associated with thymoma, although the occurrence of all three in a single patient is rare. We describe a patient in whom PRCA and MG occurred in conjunction with the presence of serum autoantibodies, evidence for a serum inhibitor of erythropoiesis, and elevation of circulating thymosin alpha 1. Although a thymoma could not be detected before death, postmortem examination of the mediastinum found scattered cells within a nodule, suggestive of a lymphoepithelial thymic neoplasm.
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