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SUBMITTER: Ved R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5099476 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ved Ronak R Patel Neil N Stechman Michael M
Case reports in endocrinology 20161025
A 42-year-old man arrived at the emergency department in severe respiratory distress, requiring immediate intubation and ventilation. An emergency computed tomography (CT) neck scan identified a substantial haematoma within a multinodular goitre, necessitating an emergency total thyroidectomy. It was later discovered that the patient had been the victim of an assault involving blunt trauma to the anterior neck. Five days postoperatively the patient was extubated and was well enough to self-disch ...[more]