[Diagnosis and treatment of retrosternal goiter].
Retrosternal and intrathoracal goiters are actual surgical problem. This is because of the severe clinical symptoms, complications and some difficulties at the operative treatment. For the period of 1991-2002 at the Clinic of Thoraco-Abdominal Surgery at Medical University Plovdiv are operated 1131 patients with thyroid disease. Of them 38 were operated with cervical incision, 3 with median sternotomy, 2 with thoracotomy. There were complication at 7 patients. Only one patient died from pulmonary embolism.
Uchikov
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A
Nedev
P
P
Murdzhev
K
K
Paskalev
G
G
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D005260:Female; D006045:Goiter, Substernal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013965:Thyroidectomy / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014463:Ultrasonography