Resection of a giant bilateral retrovascular intrathoracic goiter causing severe upper airway obstruction, 2 years after subtotal thyroidectomy: a case report and review of the literature

The intrathoracic (or substernal) goiter is more often benign; but it can be malignant in 2-22% of patients. There is history of prior thyroid surgery in 10% to more than 30% of patients. Intrathoracic goiters cause adjacent structure compression more frequently than the cervical goiters, due to the...

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Autores principales: Tsakiridis, Kosmas, Visouli, Aikaterini N., Zarogoulidis, Paul, Karapantzos, Elias, Mpakas, Andreas, Machairiotis, Nikolaos, Stylianaki, Aikaterini, Christofis, Christos, Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos, Courcoutsakis, Nicolaos, Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: Pioneer Bioscience Publishing Company 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3537381/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23304440
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2012.s004
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