Substernal goitre: A rare cause of pulmonary hypertension and heart failure

Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 719-720

  Abboud, Bassam ^a   Badaoui, Georges ^a,b   Aoun, Zeina ^a,c   Tabet, Georges ^a,d   Jebara, Victor A ^a,d  

^a SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b Departments of General and Endocrine Surgery Cardiology   (United States)

^c Departments of General and Endocrine Surgery Pneumology   (United States)

^d Departments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Goitre, substernal; Heart failure, congestive; Hypertension, pulmonary; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HEART SOUND; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE; LEG EDEMA; MEDIASTINUM; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; STERNOTOMY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY;

AGED; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG; THORACOTOMY; THYROIDECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0033780034     PISSN: 00222151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0022215001906606     Document Type: Article

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