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Continuous Muscle Fiber Activity, Peripheral Neuropathy, and Thymoma
Ann Neurol 29:215-218, Garcia-Merino,A.,et al, 1991
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Article Abstract
Two patients,one of them with myasthenia gravis,presented symptoms of continuous muscle fiber activity syndrome before discovery of a thymoma. Peripheral neuropathy was present in both patients,with axonal and demyelinating lesions in sural nerve biopsy.The syndrome remained unchanged or worse after thymectomy.Both patients died of associated complications.
 
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