What Is a Thymectomy?

Thymectomy is a therapeutic operation for myasthenia gravis and thymoma.

Thymectomy

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Thymectomy is a therapeutic operation for myasthenia gravis and thymoma.
Chinese name
Thymectomy
Foreign name
Thymectomy
Indication
With myasthenia gravis, thymoma
Body position
Shoulder and back cushion with a thin pillow
Thymectomy
Thymectomy
Regardless of whether myasthenia gravis is involved, the treatment of thymoma should be based on surgery.
1. Control of lung infections.
2. For patients with myasthenia gravis, an effective therapeutic dose of anticholinesterase drugs should be worked out.
Supine position. Endotracheal intubation was general anesthesia.
A thin pillow on the back and shoulders.
1. Incision: Mid-sternal incision.
2. After pushing back the pleura to the sides, you can see the thymus tissue () located in the anterior mediastinum.
3 Lift the lower pole of the thymoma, carefully separate it from the bottom up with the surrounding fatty tissue, and remove it in one piece ().
4 Stainless steel wire suture the sternum. A drainage tube is placed behind the sternum. The incision is sutured layer by layer.
1. Ensure that the airway is unobstructed. Tracheotomy and assisted breathing should be performed as early as necessary.
2. Use antibiotics to control infection.
3 Ban aminoglycosides.
4 Continue to use anticholinase drugs for myasthenia gravis.

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