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ArticleClinical case reports2026

Surgical Challenges in Papillary Thyroid Cancer Patient With Kartagener's Syndrome: A Case Report.

Jianhao Huang, Tingting Zhao, Minghui Wei

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Jianhao HuangDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital and Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Shenzhen Guangdong China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2116-5221
Tingting ZhaoDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital and Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Shenzhen Guangdong China.
Minghui WeiDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital and Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Shenzhen Guangdong China.

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Abstract

Kartagener's syndrome is a rare disorder defined by situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, and bronchiectasis, with mirror-image anatomy that may alter recurrent laryngeal nerve course and vascular structures. No previous reports have described thyroid cancer surgery details in this population. We present a female patient with Kartagener's syndrome who underwent right thyroidectomy and lymph node dissection for papillary thyroid carcinoma. Histopathology confirmed nodal metastasis, and intraoperative findings revealed a normal recurrent laryngeal nerve but a variant transverse cervical artery. This is the first report of thyroidectomy and lymph node dissection in a patient with Kartagener's syndrome, emphasizing the need for awareness of non-recurrent laryngeal nerve and cervical artery variations during such procedures.

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Kartagener's syndromelymph node dissectionpapillary thyroid cancerthyroidectomytransverse cervical artery

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