Ectopic thyroid is a rare developmental anomaly which may be either asymptomatic or present with thyroid dysfunction as well as pressure symptoms. Here we present a novel case of thyrotoxicosis associated with a hypopharyngeal multinodular thyroid in a female. Removal of the ectopic thyroid led to normalization of the thyroid status.

Thyroid carcinomas arising from ectopic thyroid tissue are uncommon;most of them arise from thyroid tissue in thyroglossal cysts. A rare case of a 66-year-old woman with papillary thyroid carcinoma arising from median ectopic thyroid tissue lacking a thyroglossal duct remnant is reported. The tumor was resected by Sistrunk's procedure, and the patient's postoperative course was good.

Following the initial description of an ectopic thyroid by Verneuil, ( 1 ) it remained only as an anatomical curiosity for many years. Hunt ( 2 ) described dysphagia and obstruction of the upper larynx caused by a lingual thyroid and suggested the clinical importance of this entity. Mont gomery ( 3 ) has reviewed most of the reported cases, and observed that surgi cal ablation of the ectopic ti...

large median endodermal anlage and two lateral anlages (1). Commonly, the median anlage fails to descend, resulting in a lingual thyroid gland. In rare cases, failure of the lateral anlage to fuse with the median anlage produces a lateral ectopic thyroid gland (2). There are a number of case reports of papillary thyroid carcinomas in ectopic thyroid tissue, but there are only a few cases of pri...

Lingual thyroid is an uncommon condition and cases accompanying hemiagenesis are rarely documented. Patients with usually asymptomatic generally diagnosed incidentally. Herein, we reported the case of ectopic lingual euthyroidism presented regional symptoms.

Abnormalities in the embryologic development and migration of the thyroid gland can result in ectopic thyroid tissue. Ectopic mediastinal goiters are somewhat uncommon developmental anomalies, accounting for less than 1% of all thyroid ectopies. Graves’ disease within mediastinal goiter is a very rare entity, described only in few cases in English literature. Pretracheal thyroidectomy alone doe...