Rib cage calcification, intercostal muscle weakening ... Finally, decreases in T- and B-cell function and thymic atrophy can increase the geriatric patient's vulnerability to infection.

Thus, in thymic aplasia humoral immunity is normal, but cellular immunity is deficient, findings precisely the reverse of what is found in congenital agammaglobulinemia. The dichotomy found ...

Dr Boon, Department of Neurology of the St Anna Hospital, PO Box 90, 5660 AB, Geldrop, Netherlands. Aims To determine whether mitral annular calcification and aortic valve calcification, with or ...

Although thymic tumors (thymomas and thymic carcinomas) are the most common tumors in the anterior mediastinum (the front part of the space between the lungs), overall they are rare. They occur at a ...

No specific inherited, environmental, or lifestyle risk factors have been strongly linked to thymoma or thymic carcinoma. Some studies have suggested a possible link with exposure to radiation to the ...