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Fig. 5A. Extrinsic tracheal compression caused by thyroid goiter in 48-year-old woman. Three-dimensional external-rendered CT image of trachea shows smoothly marginated narrowing above level of thoracic inlet. To emphasize relationship of airway and skeletal landmarks of thoracic inlet, we chose reconstruction algorithm that extracted thyroid gland.