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Management of Patients with Substernal Goiters
Surgical Clinics of North America, 1995The 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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Le Journal medical libanais. The Lebanese medical journal, 1991
In a series of 363 patients operated for goiter, 60 were retrosternal (16.5%). The female incidence although less than in cervical goiters remains predominant (2,5:1). Most patients are in older age group, 68% being above 40 years. The majority of goiters are multinodular and of long duration.
R, Daou, E, Hajjar, J, Rahal
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In a series of 363 patients operated for goiter, 60 were retrosternal (16.5%). The female incidence although less than in cervical goiters remains predominant (2,5:1). Most patients are in older age group, 68% being above 40 years. The majority of goiters are multinodular and of long duration.
R, Daou, E, Hajjar, J, Rahal
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Surgery for substernal goiters
Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 1994Abstract 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 ...
Jason P Cohen, Hyun T Cho
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Surgical treatment of substernal goiters.
International surgery, 1991Fifty-one patients (4.6%) underwent resection of a substernal goiter in a fifteen-year period during the course of 1103 thyroidectomies. Forty-eight (94.2%) goiters were benign and three (5.8%) malignant. Mean age was 55 years. Female:male ratio was 2:1. Four patients (7.8%) had undergone prior thyroid surgery.
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Chirurgie; memoires de l'Academie de chirurgie, 1992
In a series of 363 patients operated for goiter, 60 were retrosternal (16.5%). The female incidence although less than in cervical goiters remains predominant (2.5:1). Most patients are in older age group, 68% being above 40 years. The majority of goiters are multinodular and of long duration.
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In a series of 363 patients operated for goiter, 60 were retrosternal (16.5%). The female incidence although less than in cervical goiters remains predominant (2.5:1). Most patients are in older age group, 68% being above 40 years. The majority of goiters are multinodular and of long duration.
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Sequestered substernal goiter.
Archives of internal medicine, 1984A young woman with a normally located and only subtly nodular thyroid gland in the neck was found to have a clinically distinct and radioisotopically "cold" anterior mediastinal mass, which proved to be a benign colloid adenoma. While this constellation of findings usually suggests the presence of a nonthyroidal neoplasm, eg, lymphoma, thymoma, or ...
P W, Ladenson +3 more
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[Surgery of substernal goiter].
Zhonghua er bi yan hou ke za zhi, 2004To study the surgical approaches and operative techniques for substernal goiter.A retrospective study of 27 cases with substernal thyroid nodules was made in our hospital.The operations on 27 patients with substernal nodules have been successfully carried out. Among them, 10 were goiters, 9 adenomas, 4 malignancy and 4 were thyroid cancer metastasizing
G, Wu +10 more
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