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Authors: Mario Testini; Francesco Logoluso; Germana Lissidini; Angela Gurrado; Giuseppe Campobasso; Rocco Cortese; Giuseppe Massimiliano De Luca; Ilaria Fabiola Franco; Alessandro De Luca; Giuseppe Piccinni
Journal: World J Emerg Surg Date: 2012-04-11 Impact factor: 5.469

Acute respiratory failure and tracheal obstruction in the elderly with benign goitres.

1. Evaluation of obstructing lesions of the trachea and larynx by flow-volume loops.

2. Effects of helium and oxygen mixtures on pulmonary mechanics during airway constriction.

Review 3. Diagnosis of obstruction of the upper and central airways.

1. Emergency partial thyroidectomy under cervical block to relieve severe acute airway obstruction from thyroid cancer.

2. Emergency total thyroidectomy due to non traumatic disease. Experience of a surgical unit and literature review.

3. Upper airway obstruction from a benign goiter.

4. Acute respiratory failure in a rapidly enlarging benign cervical goitre.

5. EMERGENCY SURGICAL TRACHEAL DECOMPRESSION IN A HUGE RETROSTERNAL GOITER.