A 78-Year-Old Man With Historical Goiter

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide description of the natural evolution of an initially operable goitre into unmesurable form in a context of deeply unknown psychiatric disorders initially unknown.

Keywords: Ekbom syndrome; giant; goiter; psychiatric disorders; thyroid.

Figure 1.

Giant goiter extending from the thoracic cervical region to the border of the upper mandible. The skin was fistulized and showed local signs of compression with superior vena cava syndrome with collateral venous circulation.

Figure 2.

Lateral view of a goiter predominant in the left cervicothoracic region.

Figure 3.

Computed tomography of giant cervicothoracic goiter unmeasurable with voluminous bilateral confluent cervical adenopathy generating a mass effect on the laryngeal cavity and causing severe narrowing of the laryngeal and tracheal lumen.