Table 1.

Characteristics of 100 Patients with Thymoma

	No. of patients
Sex
Male	46
Female	54
Age
15–39 yr	29
40–59 yr	57
≥60 yr	14
Stage (Masaoka Staging)
I	50
II	6
III	27
IVA	10
IVB	7
Extent of resection
Complete resection	66
Partial resection	3
Biopsy only or Aspiration Cytology	29
Myasthenis gravis
Yes	30
No	70
Other associated autoimmune disease (except myasthenia gravis)
Yes*	2
No	88

^*SLE and pure red cell aplasia