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Isolated Posterior Mediastinal Thyroid Nodule Simulating Esophageal Pathology: A Multi-Modality Diagnosis
Posterior mediastinal goiter is not a common cause of dysphagia, and symptoms can simulate esophageal malignancy. This case report highlights two critical clinical aspects. First, the patient's symptoms of gradually worsening dysphagia to solids and liquids, odynophagia, and hoarseness of voice...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9308399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35898351 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26241 |
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author | Riaz, Bushra Anwar, Shayan S |
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description | Posterior mediastinal goiter is not a common cause of dysphagia, and symptoms can simulate esophageal malignancy. This case report highlights two critical clinical aspects. First, the patient's symptoms of gradually worsening dysphagia to solids and liquids, odynophagia, and hoarseness of voice secondary to retrosternal thyroid nodule extension can simulate esophageal malignancy. Second, a barium swallow study can effectively rule out esophageal pathology even though more advanced studies, like High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT), are inconclusive. We present a unique case of isolated posterior mediastinal exophytic thyroid nodule simulating the symptoms of esophageal pathology. |
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spelling | pubmed-93083992022-07-26 Isolated Posterior Mediastinal Thyroid Nodule Simulating Esophageal Pathology: A Multi-Modality Diagnosis Riaz, Bushra Anwar, Shayan S Cureus Internal Medicine Posterior mediastinal goiter is not a common cause of dysphagia, and symptoms can simulate esophageal malignancy. This case report highlights two critical clinical aspects. First, the patient's symptoms of gradually worsening dysphagia to solids and liquids, odynophagia, and hoarseness of voice secondary to retrosternal thyroid nodule extension can simulate esophageal malignancy. Second, a barium swallow study can effectively rule out esophageal pathology even though more advanced studies, like High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT), are inconclusive. We present a unique case of isolated posterior mediastinal exophytic thyroid nodule simulating the symptoms of esophageal pathology. Cureus 2022-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9308399/ /pubmed/35898351 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26241 Text en Copyright © 2022, Riaz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Riaz, Bushra Anwar, Shayan S Isolated Posterior Mediastinal Thyroid Nodule Simulating Esophageal Pathology: A Multi-Modality Diagnosis |
title | Isolated Posterior Mediastinal Thyroid Nodule Simulating Esophageal Pathology: A Multi-Modality Diagnosis |
title_full | Isolated Posterior Mediastinal Thyroid Nodule Simulating Esophageal Pathology: A Multi-Modality Diagnosis |
title_fullStr | Isolated Posterior Mediastinal Thyroid Nodule Simulating Esophageal Pathology: A Multi-Modality Diagnosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Isolated Posterior Mediastinal Thyroid Nodule Simulating Esophageal Pathology: A Multi-Modality Diagnosis |
title_short | Isolated Posterior Mediastinal Thyroid Nodule Simulating Esophageal Pathology: A Multi-Modality Diagnosis |
title_sort | isolated posterior mediastinal thyroid nodule simulating esophageal pathology: a multi-modality diagnosis |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9308399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35898351 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26241 |
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