Continuous muscle fiber activity, peripheral neuropathy, and thymoma
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Annals of Neurology
- Vol. 29 (2), 215-218
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.410290218
Abstract
Two patients, one of them with myasthenia gravis, presented symptoms of continuous muscle fiber activity syndrome before discovery of a thymoma. Peripheral neuropathy was present in both patients, with axonal and demyelinating lesions in sural nerve biopsy. The syndrome remained unchanged or whose after thymectomy. Both patients died of associated complications.Keywords
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