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Aberrant retrotracheal goiter: report of a case
M Haniuda1, M Morimoto, O Kobayashi
1Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
Surgery Today
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
A case of intrathoracic retrotracheal goiter in a 40-year-old woman is herein described. A computed tomographic scan, magnetic resonance imaging and endoscopical ultrasonography all confirmed the existence of a retrotracheal encapsulated lesion, which was suspected to be aberrant mediastinal goiter. Radioiodine scintigraphy, however, demonstrated little uptake in the mass. A large (7 x 6 x 4 cm), encapsulated adenomatous goiter was then easily removed via a right thoracic approach.