Ectopic posterior mediastinal thyroid: a case report

BACKGROUND: Posterior mediastinum is a very rare site of ectopic thyroid and such cases are usually identified incidentally by radiography. CASE PRESENTATION: A 74 year-old Caucasian male was operated for a mass located in the right posterior mediastinum. Diagnosis of thyroid tissue was confirmed in...

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Autores principales: Karapolat, Sami, Bulut, Ismet
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2492841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18644151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-53
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Bulut, Ismet
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description BACKGROUND: Posterior mediastinum is a very rare site of ectopic thyroid and such cases are usually identified incidentally by radiography. CASE PRESENTATION: A 74 year-old Caucasian male was operated for a mass located in the right posterior mediastinum. Diagnosis of thyroid tissue was confirmed intra-operatively by frozen section and the mass was resected totally. He is well without any problems for 1 year after operation. CONCLUSION: Surgical resection may deliver a cure for ectopic posterior mediastinal thyroid and offers good prospects for prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-24928412008-08-01 Ectopic posterior mediastinal thyroid: a case report Karapolat, Sami Bulut, Ismet Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Posterior mediastinum is a very rare site of ectopic thyroid and such cases are usually identified incidentally by radiography. CASE PRESENTATION: A 74 year-old Caucasian male was operated for a mass located in the right posterior mediastinum. Diagnosis of thyroid tissue was confirmed intra-operatively by frozen section and the mass was resected totally. He is well without any problems for 1 year after operation. CONCLUSION: Surgical resection may deliver a cure for ectopic posterior mediastinal thyroid and offers good prospects for prognosis. BioMed Central 2008-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2492841/ /pubmed/18644151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-53 Text en Copyright © 2008 Karapolat and Bulut; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ectopic posterior mediastinal thyroid: a case report
title Ectopic posterior mediastinal thyroid: a case report
title_full Ectopic posterior mediastinal thyroid: a case report
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title_short Ectopic posterior mediastinal thyroid: a case report
title_sort ectopic posterior mediastinal thyroid: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2492841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18644151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-53
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