Intra-Thoracic Goitre with Life Threatening Complications: A Continuing Diagnostic Problem

Abstract

Fourteen patients underwent surgery for benign intra-thoracic goitre many presented with respiratory distress due to tracheal compression, and in some desperately ill patients inoperable cancer of the lung was diagnosed. The plain chest X-ray revealed the goitre and once the true diagnosis was suggested, prompt surgical intervention followed.

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