Patients diagnosed with myasthenia gravis often have tumors or pathologic changes in the:
a. brain.
b. pancreas.
c. thymus.
d. lungs.
ANS: C
Patients diagnosed with myasthenia gravis experience tumors in the thymus, not the brain, the pancreas, or the lungs.
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