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Successful combined surgical approach in a rare case of retrotracheal goitre in a patient with anatomical impediments [PDF]
, 2018 Diving goitres can descend the cervical region expanding directly into the thoracic cavity. In most cases, diving goitres extend into the anterosuperior compartment, but they may also extend behind the trachea.
Athanasiou, A. +8 more
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Huge Multinodular Goiter with occult carcinoma: A case report [PDF]
, 2020 Enlarged nodular goiters are becoming increasingly infrequent. They are still common in certain geographical areas and can present with compressive symptoms to the trachea, oesophagus and recurrent laryngeal nerve.
Azaz Ayubi, Muhammad Aqib, S H Waqar
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Gland surgery, 2020 We report a patient with right substernal goiter and preoperative vocal cord palsy (VCP). During dissection, an anatomic variation of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) and a prolonged EMG were detected by intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM ...
Jia Joanna Wang +6 more
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Balkan Medical Journal, 2018 Background: A thyroidectomy can be performed via a cervical incision in most patients with retrosternal goiter. Aims: To investigate the correlation between the volume of the mediastinal portion of the thyroid gland and the need for an extra-cervical ...
İsmail Cem Sormaz1 +7 more
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Extracting Angina Symptoms from Clinical Notes Using Pre-Trained Transformer Architectures [PDF]
AMIA Annual Symposium 2020, 2020 Anginal symptoms can connote increased cardiac risk and a need for change in cardiovascular management. This study evaluated the potential to extract these symptoms from physician notes using the Bidirectional Encoder from Transformers language model fine-tuned on a domain-specific corpus.
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Acute respiratory distress secondary to posterior mediastinal goiter: a case report [PDF]
, 2009 Large posterior mediastinal goiters are extremely rare. Progressive enlargement and possible compression of adjacent structures, as well as malignant potential necessitate that these goiters should be surgically excised.
Bakaeen, Faisal G +2 more
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Substernal Goiter: a case to remember.
Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira, 2020 Goiter is a localized or generalized thyroid hypertrophy. It can remain within the cervical region or grow down until it invades the mediastinum. The signs and symptoms depend on the size and location of the goiter.
S. Macedo +3 more
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Developing a large‐scale quality improvement program for thyroid cancer surgery
World Journal of Surgery, Volume 48, Issue 12, Page 2925-2933, December 2024.Abstract Background Surgical quality improvement (QI) plays a critical role in optimizing patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. QI programs focusing specifically on thyroid cancer surgical care are lacking. This study aimed to (a) select and introduce surgical quality indicators for thyroid cancer and (b) identify areas for QI at the state ...
Catherine B. Jensen +7 more
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Substernal goiter excision in a Jehovah’s Witness
Proceedings, 2020 Jehovah’s Witnesses present a unique challenge in oral and head and neck surgery. We report a case of a substernal goiter excised on a Jehovah’s Witness without the use of blood transfusion, in accordance with the patient’s beliefs.
O. Kholaki, Todd R. Wentland, R. Kim
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Predictive Value of Preoperative Computed Tomography in Sternotomy for Substernal Goiter
, 2021 Da-Wei Zhao Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University Tai-Hua Xiang Shanghai Hospital of Wanzhou District Yi-Zeng Sun University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Yao Li University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiang ...
Danyu Zhao +6 more
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