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ASO Author Reflections: A Possible New Etiology of Thymoma-Associated Myasthenia Gravis—Human Parvovirus B19

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  1. Department of Pathology, Helmholtz Sina-German Research Laboratory for Cancer, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China

    Li Gong MD, PhD, Jing Tian MD, Wei Zhang MD, PhD & Gaosheng Huang MD, PhD

  2. State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Pathology, Xijing Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China

    Gaosheng Huang MD, PhD

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Gong, L., Tian, J., Zhang, W. et al. ASO Author Reflections: A Possible New Etiology of Thymoma-Associated Myasthenia Gravis—Human Parvovirus B19. Ann Surg Oncol 30, 1656–1657 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-022-12958-3

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