Elective Thymectomy in the Treatment of Aregenerative Anemia Associated with Monocytic Leukemia

ECENTLY there has been considerable interR reported to date. There are seventeen of these est in the association of tumors of the cases. Chalmers [4] has stated that seven addithymus gland with refractory anemia. A year tional cases have been described to him by variago we reviewed the literature and brought up ous doctors, both in England and this country. to date two cases of our own which had been Case reports of variations of the syndrome, in previously reported [ZI]. Both diseases are rare; which the tumor was not benign or in which their association, therefore, implies more than there was depression of marrow elements other coincidence. than red cells alone, have also appeared in the In Table I are presented all cases of benign literature. Opsahl [16] reported a case of carthymoma associated with aplastic anemia cinema of the thymus associated with anemia