title: Surgical management of primary intrathoracic goiters.
abstract: Intrathoracic goiters account for 3.1%-5.8% of all mediastinal masses. Primary intrathoracic goiters, which receive their blood supply from mediastinal vessels and disconnect at the cervical thyroid, are even rarer. This report presents two cases of surgical resection of benign and malignant primary intrathoracic goiters. Usefulness of a whole-body (18)F-fluorine-2-fluoro-D: -glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography study and intraoperative fine-needle aspiration cytology in the management of primary intrathoracic goiters is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Higashinari-ku, Osaka, Japan. rkanzaki@tj8.so-net.ne.jp
authors.forename: Ryu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kanzaki
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Higashiyama
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oda
authors.forename: Jiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Okami
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Akemi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takenaka
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tomita
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kodama
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006045:Goiter, Substernal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D056346:Sternotomy; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013965:Thyroidectomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18