A 47-Year-Old Japanese Woman with Symptoms of Increased Salty and Reduced Sweet Taste Perception Preceding a Diagnosis of Thymoma-Associated Myasthenia Gravis

Motoya Kimura; Hiroaki Nakagawa; Jun-ichi Niwa; Yoshinori Wakita; Yasushi Miyata; Masato Maekawa; Manabu Doyu

doi:10.12659/AJCR.936000

02 May 2022 : Case report Japan

A 47-Year-Old Japanese Woman with Symptoms of Increased Salty and Reduced Sweet Taste Perception Preceding a Diagnosis of Thymoma-Associated Myasthenia Gravis

Unusual clinical course

Motoya Kimura^1ABCDEF, Hiroaki Nakagawa^2ABCDEF, Jun-ichi Niwa

^1ABCDEF*, Yoshinori Wakita^3ABCDEF, Yasushi Miyata^4ABCDEF, Masato Maekawa^3ABCDEF, Manabu Doyu^1ACDEFG

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.936000

Am J Case Rep 2022; 23:e936000

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Figure 1. Photomicrographs of the surgical specimen. (A) Low-power image demonstrated lymphocyte-rich thymoma (hematoxylin and eosin [H&E] stain, ×4). (B) High-power image showed tumor composed of polygonal epithelial cells set in a background of numerous lymphocytes indicating type B2 thymoma (H&E stain, ×60).

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A 47-Year-Old Japanese Woman with Symptoms of Increased Salty and Reduced Sweet Taste Perception Preceding a Diagnosis of Thymoma-Associated Myasthenia Gravis

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