Upper Airway Obstruction with a Large Calcified Substernal Benign Goiter
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Upper tracheal obstruction, stridor and dispnea developed in a 53 year-old woman because of a large calcified benign goiter. There was a mass of 3 to 4 cm in size with calcification located on the right side of trachea and in the substernal region on the chest roentgenography. CT revealed bilaterally nodular substernal goiter and tracheal compression with the calcified nodule. Cytological finding of fine needle aspiration biopsy was benign goiter. Bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy was performed to the patient with the diagnosis of substernal benign goiter without any complication. [Journal of Turgut Özal Medical Center 1996;3(3):203-205]
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