Elisa Sicolo, Carmelina Cristina Zirafa, Gaetano Romano, Jury Brandolini, Angela De Palma, Stefano Bongiolatti, Filippo Tommaso Gallina, Sara Ricciardi, Michelangelo Maestri, Melania Guida, Riccardo Morganti, Graziana Carleo, Giovanni Mugnaini, Riccardo Tajè, Fabrizia Calabró, Alessandra Lenzini, Federico Davini, Giuseppe Cardillo, Francesco Facciolo, Luca Voltolini, Giuseppe Marulli, Piergiorgio Solli, Franca Melfi
Thymectomy is the gold standard in the treatment of thymic neoplasm and plays a key role in the therapeutic path of myasthenia gravis. For years, sternotomy has been the traditional approach for removing anterior mediastinal lesions, although the robotic thymectomy is now widely performed. The literature is still lacking in papers comparing the two approaches and evaluating long-term oncological and neurological outcomes. This study aims to analyze the postoperative results of open and robotic thymectomy for thymic neoplasms in myasthenic patients...
January 18, 2024: Cancers