Right thyroid hemiagenesis with adenoma and hyperplasia of parathyroid glands -case report
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Right thyroid hemiagenesis with adenoma and hyperplasia of parathyroid glands -case report
UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare anomaly, more commonly seen on the left side (ratio 4:1) and in females (ratio 3:1). The first to describe this anomaly was Handfield Jones in 1852. CASE PRESENTATION We present a 66 year old female patient with right thyroid hemiagenesis, parathyroid adenoma on the side of hemiagenesis and parathyroid hyperplasia on the contralateral si...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Endocrine Disorders
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1472-6823
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6823-12-29