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Airway Management in Substernal Goiter Surgery

Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, 2021
Objective(s): To review the experience of 3 hospitals with airway management during surgery for substernal goiter and identify preoperative factors that predict the need for advanced airway management techniques. Methods: A retrospective chart review between 2009 and 2017 of patients with substernal goiter treated surgically at 1 of 3 hospitals was ...
Kendall K. Tasche, Ashley M. Dorneden, William M. Swift, Nathan H. Boyd, David C. Shonka, Nitin A. Pagedar   +5 more
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Operative treatment of substernal goiters

Head & Neck, 1989
AbstractThis report describes the operative experience in 72 patients with substernal goiters treated over the past 5.5 years. Even though the incidence of multinodular goiter has decreased in the United States due to the routine use of iodized salt, we continue to see a large number of patients with massive goiters, predominantly from Carribean ...
Ashok R. Shaha, Bernard M. Jaffe, Antonio E. Alfonso   +2 more
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Substernal goiters and sternotomy

The Laryngoscope, 2009
AbstractObjective:To determine what factors predispose patients with retrosternal goiters to median sternotomy.Study Design:Retrospective review.Methods:Analysis of a single surgeon experience with 113 substernal goiters operated upon during a 10‐year period.Results:108 goiters were successfully removed through a cervical approach.
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Surgical Management of Substernal Goiter

Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1994
Seventeen cases of large substernal goiter are reviewed. The commonest clinical features were frequent upper respiratory tract infections, dyspnea and a cervical mass. Five of the patients had previous thyroidectomy. The substernal goiter was located in the right chest in 11 cases, the left chest in five and bilaterally in one case.
Min Shen Chen, Min Shiun Huang, Huei Jyh Fahn, Sen Ei Shai, Kwok Hon Chan, Liang Shun Wang   +5 more
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Surgery for substernal goiters

Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 1994
Abstract Substernal goiters can cause respiratory distress, dysphagia, vocal cord paralysis, vascular compression, and sudden death. Thyroidectomy is curative and can almost always be successfully performed through a collar incision in the neck. This article presents the technique of transcervical removal of a mediastinal goiter, with particular ...
Hyun T. Cho, Jason P Cohen
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Management of Patients with Substernal Goiters

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1995
The presence of a substernal goiter is an indication for thyroidectomy, even in asymptomatic patients, because there is no other effective method of preventing growth of the goiter. Both primary and secondary substernal goiters usually exhibit slow but steady growth, which leads to tracheal, esophageal, vascular, and neurologic compression syndromes ...
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Harmonic focus in thyroidectomy for substernal goiter

Auris Nasus Larynx, 2015
No previous prospective study has evaluated harmonic scalpel in thyroidectomy for substernal goiter. The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of harmonic scalpel (FOCUS shear, Ethicon Endo-Surgery) in thyroidectomy for substernal goiter for blood loss, operative time, hospital stay and complications.Prospective non-randomised study of 242 ...
Hahn, Christoffer Holst, Trolle, Waldemar, Sørensen, Christian Hjort   +2 more
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Sequestered Substernal Goiter-Reply

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1983
In Reply. —Dr Rudavsky argues that neither 123 I nor technetium Tc 99m are appropriate radionuclides for the imaging of substernal thyroid tissue. Although the γ-emissions of these isotopes are, indeed, less energetic than those of 131 I, we do not agree that they are incapable of penetrating the bones of the anterior thorax.
Paul W. Ladenson, E. Chester Ridgway
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Substernal goiter: Treatment and challenges. Twenty-two years of experience in diagnosis and management of substernal goiters

Auris Nasus Larynx, 2019
Descending goiter has been a focus of controversy in thyroid surgery until nowadays. This study aims to investigate the diagnosis and treatment options of thyroid goiters extending into the mediastinum and the thoracic cavity.A retrospective study was conducted assessing all cases of substernal goiter managed in a tertiary care referral center within ...
Athina Trachalaki, Maria Doulaptsi, Emmanuel P. Prokopakis, S. Velegrakis, Alexia Loutsidi, Alexandros D. Karatzanis, George A. Velegrakis   +6 more
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Morbidity and mortality of thyroidectomy for substernal goiter

Head & Neck, 2009
AbstractBackgroundOur objective was to evaluate morbidity and mortality of thyroidectomy in substernal goiters and identify patients at risk for these events.MethodsThe medical records of 127 patients with substernal goiters were retrospectively reviewed.ResultsThe most common preoperative symptom was shortness of breath (48%).
Bassam Tabchy, Ghassan Sleilaty, Bassam Abboud, Nadine Mallak, Hicham Abou Zeid   +4 more
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