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Surgical management of primary intrathoracic goiters

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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 18F-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.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, Higashinari-ku, Osaka, 537-8511, Japan

    Ryu Kanzaki, Masahiko Higashiyama, Jiro Okami, Jun Maeda & Ken Kodama

  2. Department of Surgery, Sakai Municipal Hospital, Sakai, Japan

    Kazuyuki Oda

  3. Department of Cytology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan

    Akemi Takenaka

  4. Department of Pathology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan

    Yasuhiko Tomita

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Kanzaki, R., Higashiyama, M., Oda, K. et al. Surgical management of primary intrathoracic goiters. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 60, 171–174 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-011-0801-5

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