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Complete excision of a giant thyroid goiter in posterior mediastinum
Xin Chen, Hongfei Xu, Yiming Ni
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Qing Chun Road 79#, Hangzhou, China. xu_hongfei@sina.cn.
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
|November 8, 2013
Abstract:
Intrathoracic goiter is commonly located in the anterior mediastinum. Here we report a case of a 58-year-old Chinese male in whom we successfully removed the intrathoracic goiter and eased his dyspnea by a right posterolateral thoracotomy approach. Posterior mediastinal thyroid goiter with mediastinal compressive symptoms is an indication of surgery.
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