Surgical management of primary intrathoracic goiters.

Abstract

Intrathoracic goiters account for 3.1%-5.8% of all mediastinal masses. Primary intrathoracic goiters, which receive their blood supply from mediastinal vessels and disconnect at the cervical thyroid, are even rarer. This report presents two cases of surgical resection of benign and malignant primary intrathoracic goiters. Usefulness of a whole-body (18)F-fluorine-2-fluoro-D: -glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography study and intraoperative fine-needle aspiration cytology in the management of primary intrathoracic goiters is discussed.

• Authors: Ryu Kanzaki, Masahiko Higashiyama, Kazuyuki Oda, Jiro Okami, Jun Maeda, Akemi Takenaka, Yasuhiko Tomita, Ken Kodama
• Journal: General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg) Vol. 60 Issue 3 Pg. 171-4 (Mar 2012) ISSN: 1863-6713 [Electronic] Japan
• PMID: 22419189 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Radiopharmaceuticals
• Fluorodeoxyglucose F18

Topics

• Aged
• Biopsy, Fine-Needle
• Female
• Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
• Goiter, Substernal (diagnosis, surgery)
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Multimodal Imaging
• Positron-Emission Tomography
• Predictive Value of Tests
• Radiopharmaceuticals
• Sternotomy
• Thoracic Neoplasms (diagnosis, surgery)
• Thyroidectomy
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed
• Treatment Outcome