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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Veröffentlicht in:Intern Med
Hauptverfasser: Shioya, Nobuki, Inoue, Nozomu, Kawashima, Naonori, Tsukamoto, Yuki, Nakayama, Miyabi, Hazama, Koji, Shichinohe, Yasuo, Suzuki, Fumiyuki, Honma, Naotake
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835477/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32893229
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5075-20
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