Influence of strumectomy on preoperative tracheal compression
Jünemann, K.; Schmidt, R.
Zentralblatt für Chirurgie 104(18): 1233-1236
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-409X PMID: 543341 Document Number: 139284
Young persons and the groups of age past fifty years form the greatest portion of preoperative tracheal compressions caused by struma. In most cases there is no relationship between subjective complaints and objective findings. 80% of all retrosternal strumata showed a narrowing of the trachea. The age of the patients could be found to be the most important factor for restitutio ad integrum of the compression of the trachea.