[Symptoms resembling acute myocardial infarction caused by tracheal compression because of enlarged thyroid gland containing metastasis from pancreatic cancer].
This case describes a 78-year-old man, suffering from cancer of the prostate. The patient had had a thyroid resection 22 years earlier. He was admitted with symptoms of myocardial infarction caused by tracheal compression by an enlarged thyroid. After tracheostomy the patient recovered promptly. Resection of the thyroid revealed a little area of adenocarcinoma cells representing a metastasis from the prostate together with a Hürthle cell tumour.
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Mikkel Lønborg
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Hjørring Sygehus, anaestesi- og intensivafdelingen, og Aalborg Sygehus, øre-, naese- og halsafdelingen.
Greisen
Ole
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology*