Thyroid hydatid cyst: report of one case
Pérez P, J.Antonio.; Felmer E, O.; Carrasco E, C.; Gabrielli N, M.; Torrijos C, C.; Bastías N, J.Antonio.
Revista Medica de Chile 136(7): 896-899
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0034-9887 PMID: 18949167 Document Number: 617830
64 year-old man, living in a rural area, with a history of a thyroid nodule was subjected to fine needle aspiration 18 years ago He consulted this time for a goitre associated with dyspnoea and dysphagia. A chest X-ray and a neck computed tomography scan showed a calcified nodule in the superior mediastinum of thyroidal origin that displaced airways and blood vessels, and a small thyroid nodule of uncertain origin. A thyroid scintigram showed a right thyroid nodule.