Kubota A, Komiyama A, Hasegawa O
Department of Neurology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan.
Neurology. 1997 Mar;48(3):774-5. doi: 10.1212/wnl.48.3.774.
Of 202 patients with myasthenia gravis (MG), 6 (3%) developed alopecia areata. All six patients had a thymoma verified by pathology; the frequency of alopecia areata rose to 17% of 35 MG patients with a thymoma. In one patient who had no recognizable tumor in the mediastinum, an ectopic thymoma was present in the anterior neck.
在202例重症肌无力(MG)患者中,6例(3%)发生了斑秃。所有6例患者经病理证实均有胸腺瘤;在35例有胸腺瘤的MG患者中,斑秃的发生率升至17%。在1例纵隔未发现可识别肿瘤的患者中,前颈部存在异位胸腺瘤。