Ectopic intrathoracic thyroid: Case Report

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-133

  Sakorafas, George H ^a,b   Vlachos, Athanasios ^a   Tolumis, George ^a   Kassaras, George A ^a   Anagnostopoulos, George K ^a   Gorgogiannis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a 251 GENERAL AIR FORCE HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Goiter; Intrathoracic goiter; Retrosternal goiter; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; THORACIC CAVITY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SCINTISCANNING; THYROID SURGERY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HUMANS; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 1642373853     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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