title: Eggshell calcification after intrathyroidal hemorrhage of retrosternal thyroid.
abstract: We report a rare event of old hemorrhage into a thyroid causing respiratory distress. A 67-year-old man with chronic cough and recent dysphagia was found to have a retrosternal mass extending into the visceral mediastinum on chest roentgenogram. A computed tomographic (CT) scan confirmed eggshell callcification, which was 53 x 53 x 80 mm in size a retrosternal thyroid mass and revealed significant tracheal deviation to the right due to an extensive mass surrounded by a calcificated capsule in the left lobe of the thyroid gland with extension to the upper mediastinum. He successfully underwent left lobectomy of the thyroid gland with sternotomy. The pathological examination revealed intrathyroidal hemorrhage of the thyroid gland with massive intracystic old bleeding.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Medical Faculty, Kahramanmaras, Turkey. f_yuzbasioglu@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Mehmet Fatih
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Yuzbasioglu
authors.forename: Mesut
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozkaya
authors.forename: Fikret
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ezberci
authors.forename: Nimet
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Senoglu
authors.forename: Betul
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kizildag