Robotic resection of mediastinal goiter and ectopic thyroid
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Is sternotomy always necessary for the treatment of mediastinal ectopic thyroid goiter?
UNLABELLED Ectopic thyroid goiter accounts approximately for 1% of all substernal goiters and for 10-15% of all mediastinal masses. Sternotomy is generally accepted as the most adequate approach for the removal of ectopic thyroid goiters of the anterior mediastinum. We report two cases of mediastinal ectopic goiter removal through a cervical incision, without sternotomy. The technique is based ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Shanghai Chest
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2521-3768
DOI: 10.21037/shc.2018.11.10