Department of Thoracic Surgery, King Fahad Medical City, King Salman Heart Center, Saudi Arabia
Case Report
Giant Ectopic Thyroid Mass: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Author(s): Saleh Nasr Abu-Daff*, Husameldin Suliman Hussein, Bushra Hafez, Imran Amin Shah and Mohammed Ahmed Abbas
Introduction: Giant Mediastinal Ectopic Thyroid Tissue (GMETT) is a rare entity that presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians investigating mediastinal masses. Most cases discovered are asymptomatic and incidentally detected on imaging, if symptomatic, symptoms depend on the location and size of the mass. We present a case of a right hemithoracic benign follicular goiter in an asymptomatic patient that was removed through a right posterolateral thoracotomy.
Case presentation: A 39-year-old male is discovered to have an incidental mediastinal mass on a chest radiograph following a road traffic accident. Chest CT scan revealed a heterogeneously enhancing hyper-vascular mediastinal mass in the right paratracheal location with areas of cystic degeneration and calcification. His thyroid gland was normally located in the neck.. View More»
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