title: Giant substernal goiter with chylothorax.
abstract: A 60-year-old woman presented with a huge goiter extending from the lower jaw to the diaphragm. Right pleurocentesis produced chylous fluid. A cervicothoracic incision was used to totally excise the substernal goiter, with near-total excision of the cervical goiter, and repair of the lymphatic leakage.
authors.affiliation: Damascus University Medical School, Damascus, Syria.
authors.forename: Bassam K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Darwish
authors.forename: Sami S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kabbani
mesh_terms: D002916:Chylothorax / Q000150:complications*; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006045:Goiter, Substernal / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged