Complete excision of a giant thyroid goiter in posterior mediastinum

Intrathoracic goiter is commonly located in the anterior mediastinum. Here we report a case of a 58-year-old Chinese male in whom we successfully removed the intrathoracic goiter and eased his dyspnea by a right posterolateral thoracotomy approach. Posterior mediastinal thyroid goiter with mediastin...

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Autores principales: Chen, Xin, Xu, Hongfei, Ni, Yiming, Sun, Ke, Li, Weidong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24196135
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-207
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author Chen, Xin
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Ni, Yiming
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description Intrathoracic goiter is commonly located in the anterior mediastinum. Here we report a case of a 58-year-old Chinese male in whom we successfully removed the intrathoracic goiter and eased his dyspnea by a right posterolateral thoracotomy approach. Posterior mediastinal thyroid goiter with mediastinal compressive symptoms is an indication of surgery.
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spelling pubmed-38265272013-11-14 Complete excision of a giant thyroid goiter in posterior mediastinum Chen, Xin Xu, Hongfei Ni, Yiming Sun, Ke Li, Weidong J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Intrathoracic goiter is commonly located in the anterior mediastinum. Here we report a case of a 58-year-old Chinese male in whom we successfully removed the intrathoracic goiter and eased his dyspnea by a right posterolateral thoracotomy approach. Posterior mediastinal thyroid goiter with mediastinal compressive symptoms is an indication of surgery. BioMed Central 2013-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3826527/ /pubmed/24196135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-207 Text en Copyright © 2013 Chen et al.; 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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