Men, minorities, and older patients are all more likely to present with large substernal goiters that have grown so big that surgery becomes riskier than it is for patients with nonsubsternal goiters.

A thyroidectomy is a surgical procedure where a person has some or all of their thyroid—a gland in the neck—removed. Learn more about the procedure.

It is also recognized that certain adenomatous goiters require thyroidectomy because of toxicity or because of substernal, retrotracheal or intrathoracic extension productive of serious pressure ...

Criteria of exclusion were substernal goiter, previous neck surgery, extracapsular cancer, history of gastro-esophageal reflux and poor linguistic skill.

In our patient, recurrent episodes of type I postobstructive pulmonary edema appeared to be caused by tracheomalacia involving a substernal goitre. We drew this conclusion because she was weaned from ...

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Patients undergoing a total thyroidectomy are 34 percent less likely to experience complications if their surgeon performs at least 25 cases per year of this operation to remove the entire thyroid ...