Ectopic goitrous submandibular thyroid with goitrous orthotopic thyroid gland
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Submandibular ectopic thyroid with normally located thyroid gland.
Ectopic thyroid is a rare developmental anomaly of the thyroid gland which is defined as the presence of thyroid tissue at a site other than the pretracheal area. Nearly 1 to 3% of all ectopic thyroids are located in the lateral neck. Simultaneous submandibular ectopic thyroid tissue presenting with a functional orthotopic thyroid gland is extremely rare. In this article, we report a 37-year-ol...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0971-3026
DOI: 10.4103/0971-3026.184420