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Surgical innovation, statistical analysis, and professional culture: thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, 1936-2016

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This paper provides an account of a specific operation - the removal of the thymus gland (thymectomy) to treat the rare neurological condition myasthenia gravis - from its first performance in 1936, by the American surgeon Alfred Blalock, to the publication in... ...