thyroid tissue located within the upper airway has received only sparse attention in the english literature. aberrant benign thyroid masses may present as either an unrelated autopsy finding or with symptoms such as dyspnea, hemoptysis or adult -onset asthma. there is no place for medical management in the therapy of these lesions, although the appropriate surgical procedure is not clearly esta...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether urinary iodine concentration (UIC) can predict goiter among school-age children, and to assess the association between UIC and goiter prevalence. METHODS We searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews), Web of Science, CNKI, VIP, and Wan Fang databases for relevant reports in both English and Chinese up to August 25, 2...

A 67-year-old male patient came to the hospital due to lung cancer and mediastinal cystic mass which was suspected to be esophageal duplication cyst. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was performed and intra-operative finding suggested it as a cystic mass along the thoracic duct. Thoracic duct was ligated and the cyst was completely resected. A 48-year-old female patient visited the h...

OBJECTIVES The relationship between thoracic spine dysfunction and painful shoulder pathologies is poorly understood. This study sought to determine the intra-rater reliability of a protocol aimed at assessing the active mobility of the thoracic spine in individuals with chronic rotator cuff pathology. METHODS Ten individuals (6 men and 4 women) with chronic rotator cuff pathology were recrui...

"Forgotten" goiter is an extremely rare disease which is defined as a mediastinal thyroid mass found after total thyroidectomy. The authors report their experience of 7 cases of residual mediastinal goiter after total thyroidectomy for substernal goiter. Six patients were female and one male with a median age of 56 years (range: 25-70 years). Four patients were asymptomatic, 2 patients showed s...

Introduction: Retrosternal goiter can cause respiratory distress, dysphagia, compression of great vessels, and even sudden death. Surgery is the only effective treatment. The presence of retrosternal extension is an indication for surgery even in the absence of clinical symptoms as it will continue to grow and cause pressure symptoms eventually. Intra operative and post operative airway managem...

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Although it has been conventionally believed that negative frequency dependence of respiratory resistance and deep decline of respiratory reactance during expiratory phase in COPD are due to ventilation inhomogeneity caused by small airway obstructions, there have been neither experimental theoretical evidence. We have recently confirmed that the airflow limitation site in COPD is the intra-med...

Background Several water-based sports (swimming, surfing and stand up paddle boarding) require adequate thoracic mobility (specifically rotation) in order to perform the appropriate activity requirements. The measurement of thoracic spine rotation is problematic for clinicians due to a lack of convenient and reliable measurement techniques. More recently, smartphones have been used to quantify ...

Thyroid diseases in children and adolescents are not common. The present paper describes 73 patients, aged 5 to 18 years, who had thyroid disease which was treated by surgery. Of these, 18 had diffuse simple goiter, 11 had diffuse toxic goiter and 44 had nodular goiter. Of those patients with nodular goiter, 34 had adenomatous goiter, one had lymphocytic thyroiditis, one had lymphosarcoma and e...