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Respiratory insufficiency from myasthenia gravis and polymyositis due to malignant thymoma triggering Takotsubo syndrome

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Pages 1207-1210 | Received 06 Oct 2017, Accepted 04 Jun 2018, Published online: 20 Aug 2018

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