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Lingual thyroid excision via Transoral Robotic Surgery – Case report and literature review
Otolaryngology Case Reports, 2022 Lingual thyroid is a rare disease, occurring in 1/18,000 to 1/100,000 live births. Symptoms may vary from hypothyroidism to massive bleeding and odynofagia. A number of different approaches for surgical excision of lingual thyroid have been described and
Rafael De Cicco +2 more
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Lingual thyroid causing dysphonia: case report
São Paulo Medical JournalCONTEXT: Lingual thyroid gland is a rare clinical entity that is caused by the failure of the thyroid gland to descend to a normal cervical location during embryogenesis.
Alfio José Tincani +4 more
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Ann Maxillofac Surg, 2015 Lingual thyroid is an abnormal mass of ectopic thyroid tissue seen in base of tongue caused due to embryological aberrancy in development of thyroid gland. Most of the ectopic tissue is seen in the tongue. Their identification and proper management is essential since they may be the only functioning thyroid tissue occurring in the body.
Kumar LK +4 more
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Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2013 Amani Mohammed El Amine, Chikh Kamel
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Incidental lingual thyroid with subclinical hypothyroidism: case report
The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology, 2020 Background Lingual thyroid is a very rare pathological finding and is usually incidentally discovered. It occurs when a defect in embryogenesis gives rise to ectopic thyroid as tongue base mass. Majority of patients are asymptomatic.
Turki Abdul Kareem al Driweesh +3 more
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Lingual and Mediastinal Ectopic Thyroid with No Normal Thyroid Gland – A Very Rare Occurrence
Bengal Journal of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery, 2019 Introduction Ectopic thyroid is a rare congenital condition. Dual ectopic thyroid is rarer still with only 30 cases reported in literature.
Shyam Kalyan N +3 more
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Internal Medicine, 2002 A case report is presented in which magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, and ultra-sound were used to diagnose a lingual thyroid and exclude a thyroglossal cyst.
NAKAMURA, Shigenori +3 more
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An incidental finding of a lingual thyroid gland
, 2022 Introduction Thyroid ectopia is a rare entity resulting from abnormalities in gland embryogenesis during its passage from the tongue base to its normal orthotopic site.
A Gendre (14002015) +4 more
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Ectopic lingual thyroid: The role of imaging
South African Journal of Radiology, 1996 Ectopic thyroid tissue may be found throughout the migration course of the thyroid gland. Thyroid ectopy may be partial or total. The most common location of ectopic thyroid tissue is in the tongue base (lingual thyroid).
J. Kew, A. Ahuja, P. Scott
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Three Cases of Lingual Thyroid and Review of the Literature
Endocrinology Research and Practice, 2022 Ecotopic thyroid is a rare clinical entity which has an incidence varying between 1/3000 to 1/10000. Lingual localization accounts for 90% of the ectopia of thyroid gland. Lingual thyroid was found in up to 10 % of autopsy cases.
Haluk Sargın +4 more
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