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Letter| Volume 217, ISSUE 2, P233-234, February 15, 2004

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Letter to the editor

      In a previous issue of this journal, Mantegazza et al. reported the results of video-assisted thoracoscopic extended thymectomy and extended transsternal thymectomy in non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis patients [
      • Mantegazza R.
      • Baggi F.
      • Bernasconi P.
      • Antozzi C.
      • Confalonieri P.
      • Novellino L.
      • et al.
      Video-assisted thoracoscopic extended thymectomy (VATET) and extended transsternal thymectomy (T-3b) in non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis patients: remission after 6 years of follow-up.
      ].
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