Life-threatening giant mediastinal goiter: A surgical challenge

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 429-430

  Veronesi, G ^a   Leo, F ^a   Solli, P G ^a   D'Aiuto, M ^a   D'Ovidio, F ^a   Mazzarol, G ^a   Spaggiari, L ^a   Pastorino, U ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Goiter, substernal, surgery; Thoracic surgical procedure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTERY LESION; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLEEDING; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSEUDOSARCOMA; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; STERNOTOMY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; TRACHEA COMPRESSION;

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FIBROMA; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STERNUM; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0034922515     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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