What Is a Thymectomy?
Thymectomy is a therapeutic operation for myasthenia gravis and thymoma.
Thymectomy
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- Chinese name
- Thymectomy
- Foreign name
- Thymectomy
- Indication
- With myasthenia gravis, thymoma
- Body position
- Shoulder and back cushion with a thin pillow
- Thymectomy is a therapeutic operation for myasthenia gravis and thymoma.
- 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.