Incidental paratracheal lymph node lung adenocarcinoma in a patient with goiter: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Paratracheal lymph nodes can be sites of metastasis for a variety of malignancies, but these metastases are treated differently depending on the tissue of origin. We describe a patient who underwent combined thoracoscopic and cervical resection of a multinodular goiter who was found to have incidental lung adenocarcinoma in an adjacent paratracheal lymph node despite having no pulmonary nodules.

Case description

A 62-year-old male with longstanding substernal multinodular goiter presented to his primary care doctor with continued growth of his goiter. After repeatedly declining surgery, he became amenable to resection and underwent right video-assisted thoracoscopic and cervical approaches. An incidentally found separate large right paratracheal lymph node was als

SUBMITTER: Kwak HV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9343975 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature