Benign Thyroid Mass Causing Necrosis of Tracheal Cartilage
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Papillary thyroid carcinoma presenting with intraluminal tracheal mass symptoms.
Papillary thyroid carcinoma is a common thyroid malignancy reported world wide. It affects females more commonly in the 4th to 6th decades of life. The patients usually present with a painless anterior neck mass and occasionally with lymph node involvement. We report a case of an elderly male who presented with hoarseness and hemoptysis, which warranted bronchoscopy. Biopsy of the intraluminal ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2092-5859,2092-6529
DOI: 10.3342/kjorl-hns.2016.59.11.792