A thymectomy is surgery to remove your thymus gland. About 10% of people with myasthenia gravis have a thymoma. This is a tumor on your thymus gland. Usually, these are benign (non-cancerous).

A 2019 analysis of studies that looked at 1,223 thymectomies suggests that a minimally invasive thymectomy using video-assisted thoracoscopic and robotic methods has similar benefits to open surgery.

Thymectomy is a type of surgery for myasthenia gravis (MG). It involves removing the thymus gland. Modern thymectomy techniques are minimally invasive and can have long-term benefits for symptoms.

Adults who had undergone thymectomy had at least double the risk of all-cause mortality and cancer at 5 years post-surgery compared with matched patients who had undergone cardiothoracic surgery ...

A thymectomy is surgery to remove your thymus. The thymus is a small gland that sits in front of your heart and produces immune cells. The thymus helps develop the immune system in babies and young ...

In a study of almost 2,300 adults who underwent chest surgery, removing the thymus gland was associated with higher rates of death and of cancer within the next few years, researchers report in ...

Wolfe notes that thymectomy is a procedure that is exclusively done therapeutically, either in the presence of a tumor, when removal is required, or as a treatment for MG. However, he adds, thymus ...

In addition, compared with VATS thymectomy, the conversion rate for multi-port surgery (0%) was lower, and the chest tube duration (1.32±0.75 days) and hospitalization period (2.52±1.00 days ...

Five years after surgery, 8.1% of patients who had a thymectomy died compared with 2.8% of those who did not have their thymus removed, equating to a 2.9-times higher risk of death.

If the cancer has not spread outside of the thymus, surgery can be curative, but people with high-risk cancers (by pathological evaluation) are usually recommended to follow surgery with radiation ...