Soft tissue hematoma of the neck due to thyroid rupture with unusual mechanism

•Massive bleeding from the thyroid without direct neck trauma rarely causes airway compromise.•Physicians should regard possible thyroid gland rupture in patients with swelling of the neck or acute respiratory failure after direct/indirect trauma to the neck.•Airway management is the most important...

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Main Authors: Tsukahara, Kohei, Sato, Keiji, Yumoto, Tetsuya, Iida, Atsuyoshi, Nosaka, Nobuyuki, Terado, Michihisa, Naito, Hiromichi, Orita, Yorihisa, Naito, Tomoyuki, Miki, Kentaro, Sugihara, Mayu, Nagao, Satoko, Ugawa, Toyomu, Nakao, Atsunori
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4983637/
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spelling pubmed-49836372016-08-22 Soft tissue hematoma of the neck due to thyroid rupture with unusual mechanism Tsukahara, Kohei Sato, Keiji Yumoto, Tetsuya Iida, Atsuyoshi Nosaka, Nobuyuki Terado, Michihisa Naito, Hiromichi Orita, Yorihisa Naito, Tomoyuki Miki, Kentaro Sugihara, Mayu Nagao, Satoko Ugawa, Toyomu Nakao, Atsunori Case Report •Massive bleeding from the thyroid without direct neck trauma rarely causes airway compromise.•Physicians should regard possible thyroid gland rupture in patients with swelling of the neck or acute respiratory failure after direct/indirect trauma to the neck.•Airway management is the most important consideration in such patients with thyroid injury. Elsevier 2016-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4983637/ /pubmed/27518246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.08.002 Text en © 2016 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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author Tsukahara, Kohei
Sato, Keiji
Yumoto, Tetsuya
Iida, Atsuyoshi
Nosaka, Nobuyuki
Terado, Michihisa
Naito, Hiromichi
Orita, Yorihisa
Naito, Tomoyuki
Miki, Kentaro
Sugihara, Mayu
Nagao, Satoko
Ugawa, Toyomu
Nakao, Atsunori
spellingShingle Tsukahara, Kohei
Sato, Keiji
Yumoto, Tetsuya
Iida, Atsuyoshi
Nosaka, Nobuyuki
Terado, Michihisa
Naito, Hiromichi
Orita, Yorihisa
Naito, Tomoyuki
Miki, Kentaro
Sugihara, Mayu
Nagao, Satoko
Ugawa, Toyomu
Nakao, Atsunori
Soft tissue hematoma of the neck due to thyroid rupture with unusual mechanism
author_facet Tsukahara, Kohei
Sato, Keiji
Yumoto, Tetsuya
Iida, Atsuyoshi
Nosaka, Nobuyuki
Terado, Michihisa
Naito, Hiromichi
Orita, Yorihisa
Naito, Tomoyuki
Miki, Kentaro
Sugihara, Mayu
Nagao, Satoko
Ugawa, Toyomu
Nakao, Atsunori
author_sort Tsukahara, Kohei
title Soft tissue hematoma of the neck due to thyroid rupture with unusual mechanism
title_short Soft tissue hematoma of the neck due to thyroid rupture with unusual mechanism
title_full Soft tissue hematoma of the neck due to thyroid rupture with unusual mechanism
title_fullStr Soft tissue hematoma of the neck due to thyroid rupture with unusual mechanism
title_full_unstemmed Soft tissue hematoma of the neck due to thyroid rupture with unusual mechanism
title_sort soft tissue hematoma of the neck due to thyroid rupture with unusual mechanism
description •Massive bleeding from the thyroid without direct neck trauma rarely causes airway compromise.•Physicians should regard possible thyroid gland rupture in patients with swelling of the neck or acute respiratory failure after direct/indirect trauma to the neck.•Airway management is the most important consideration in such patients with thyroid injury.
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2016
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4983637/
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