2010 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 195-199
A 58-year-old female was admitted to our hospital for further examination of an abnormal shadow on chest radiograph and chest computed tomography (CT). Chest CT revealed an anterior mediastinal tumor of 11×7 cm with the deviation of the trachea to the right. The anterior mediastinal tumor was diagnosed as intrathoracic goiter by CT-guided needle biopsy. A median sternotomy was performed for the extirpation of the anterior mediastinal tumor. The tumor was separated from the thyroid gland and completely extirpated without any dissection of the adjacent structures. We report the case of a patient with aberrant mediastinal goiter, which is rare.