1. Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis: The elephant and the blind men
Daniel C. Kim, MA, M. Blair Marshall, MD 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 154, Issue 1, Pages (July 2017)
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2. Figure 1
“And so these men of Indostan disputed loud and long, each in his own opinion exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right and all were in the wrong!” –John Godfrey Saxe, American poet ( ), “The Blind Man and the Elephant.”
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3. Each blind man has his own opinion about what an elephant looks like.
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