Mediastinal lesions in children

Figure 20  A 17-year-old girl with intrathoracic goiter. A: In the posteroanterior chest radiograph of the patient followed up for multinodular goiter, enlargement in the upper mediastinum and a density that deviates the trachea to the right are observed. B and C: In axial computed tomography images (blue arrow), the thyroid gland is hyperplastic and contains nodules. In addition its extension is observed in the anterior mediastinum up to the superior aortic arch. Trachea is deviated to the right and no compression is detected.