RAGE is expressed in different areas and cells of fetal, infant and adult thymus.

The basic characteristics of each patient together with the tissue diagnosis (thymus regular for age, follicular thymic hyperplasia) and presence or absence of MG is detailed.The intensity of staining for the different cells/structures was scored as follows (-, no staining; +, clearly positive; ++, very strong staining intensity).dx diagnosis, HC Hassall's corpuscles, medulla thymic medulla, GC germinal center, cTEC subcapsular cortical thymic epithelial cells, MØ macrophages, w weeks of pregnancy, yr(s) year(s), f female, m male, MG myasthenia gravis, regular thymus thymic architecture regular for age, TTH true thymic hyperplasia, FTH follicular thymic hyperplasia