Computer-aided tomographic diagnosis of retrosternal goiter

Retrosternal Goiter

Objective. Retrosternal goiters pose a significant challenge in determining the indications and appropriate approach for surgical removal while limiting postoperative morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study is to use the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database to compare outcomes of transcervical and transthoracic approaches for retrosternal goiter removal an...

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Surgical treatment of retrosternal goiter.

BACKGROUND The definition of substernal goiter is not uniform and varies among authors. We can define substernal--or retrosternal-goiter a thyroid formation with cervical departure that goes beyond the superior thoracic strait for at least 3 cm and that preserves, generally, the connections between the cervical and thoracic portion, maintaining a direct vascularization supplied by the thyroid a...

The Surgical Management of Retrosternal (Intrathoracic) Goiter

Retrosternal (intrathoracic) goiter has a prevalence of 4 to 20% of patients undergoing thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter. Although it is a condition affecting the older patient with a peak incidence in the sixth decade, the majority should be treated surgically. With few exceptions the operation can be safely accomplished through a cervical approach, only a small minority (approximately 2%...

Computer-Aided Diagnosis:

Computer methodologies are being developed to assist radiologists, as second readers, in the interpretation of mammograms. This could represent further amelioration by increasing diagnostic accuracy in the screening programs. We have developed a computerized scheme to detect clustered microcalcifications in digital mammograms, using 100 mammograms that were randomly selected from the mammograph...