Surgical management of substernal goiter

Liang Shun Wang, Sen Ei Shai, Huei Jyh Fahn, Kwok Hon Chan, Min Shen Chen, Min Shiun Huang

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摘要

Seventeen cases of large substernal goiter are reviewed. The commonest clinical features were frequent upper respiratory tract infections, dyspnea and a cervical mass. Five of the patients had previous thyroidectomy. The substernal goiter was located in the right chest in 11 cases, the left chest in five and bilaterally in one case. On computed tomograms it was pretracheal or prevascular in ten cases and retrovascular in seven. Tracheal deviation was present in 15 cases, causing tracheal compression or stenosis in 14. Thyroidectomy was performed on all 17 patients (8 subtotal, 9 total) through a low transverse collar incision. The recommended technique for substernal goiter extending from the neck to a level below the subcarinal region includes concomitant finger dissection and upward traction of the cervical thyroid through the subcapsular plane, with obliteration of the postresection substernal dead space by sutures. Follow-up radiography showed that all the deviated tracheas had resumed near normal position 2-3 months postoperatively and the average diameter of the compressed tracheas had increased significantly.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)79-83
頁數5
期刊Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal
28
發行號2
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 1994
對外發佈

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 心臟病學與心血管醫學

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