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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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Autores principales: Riaz, Bushra, Anwar, Shayan S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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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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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.
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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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