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Hodler J, Kubik-Huch RA, von Schulthess GK, editors. Diseases of the Chest, Breast, Heart and Vessels 2019-2022: Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2019. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11149-6_3

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Fig. 3.2. Thyroid goiter.

Fig. 3.2

Thyroid goiter. Frontal chest radiograph (a) of an asymptomatic 74-year-old man demonstrates a mass in the mediastinum displacing the trachea to the left. Axial (b) and coronal reformations (c) of a contrast-enhanced CT confirm the mass is in the visceral or middle mediastinum, shows intense enhancement, similar to the enhancement of the right thyroid lobe (R in image C), and contains course calcifications (arrows) and low attenuation regions with it. These findings, of a heterogeneous intensely enhancing mass, with low attenuation regions, and course calcifications, connecting to the thyroid, are typical for intrathoracic extension of a goiter

From: Chapter 3, Approach to Imaging of Mediastinal Conditions in the Adult

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