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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Pubblicato in:Intern Med
Autori principali: Shioya, Nobuki, Inoue, Nozomu, Kawashima, Naonori, Tsukamoto, Yuki, Nakayama, Miyabi, Hazama, Koji, Shichinohe, Yasuo, Suzuki, Fumiyuki, Honma, Naotake
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020
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Case Report
Accesso online: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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