Enlargement of Intrathoracic Goiter with Unilateral Phrenic Nerve Paralysis Leading to Cardiopulmonary Arrest

As an intrathoracic goiter expands, it causes airway stenosis and phrenic nerve paralysis, and slight respiratory stimuli can trigger sudden life-threatening hypoventilation. A 78-year-old obese woman with a large intrathoracic goiter was found unconscious with agonal breathing in her room early in...

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Autores principales: Shioya, Nobuki, Inoue, Nozomu, Kawashima, Naonori, Tsukamoto, Yuki, Nakayama, Miyabi, Hazama, Koji, Shichinohe, Yasuo, Suzuki, Fumiyuki, Honma, Naotake
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32893229
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5075-20

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32893229
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5075-20

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