IMMUNOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES IN MYASTHENIA GRAVIS WITH A REPORT OF HASHIMOTO'S DISEASE DEVELOPING AFTER THYMECTOMY

Overview

Journal J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry

Publisher BMJ Publishing Group

Specialties Neurology
Neurosurgery
Psychiatry

Date 1964 Dec 1

PMID 14249387

Citations 18

Authors

J A Simpson

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