A Case of Lingual Thyroid Treated by131I Ablation

Lingual Thyroid: A Case Report and Literature Review

Thyroid ectopia is a dysgenesis of thyroid gland and Lingual position represents the most frequent ectopic location accounting up to 90% of ectopic cases. Hypothyroidism is commonly present because of absence of a normal thyroid gland in most instances. Primary hypothyroidism in juvenile population generally leads to retardation of linear growth and delay or even arrested puberty. We present a ...

Huge Lingual Thyroid

Lingual thyroid (LT) is a rare developmental thyroid anomaly usually affecting. Although the exact pathogenesis of this ectopic, accessory thyroid tissue is not known, it generally originates from epithelial tissue of non-obliterated thyroglossal ductus. In this report, a case of lingual thyroid in a 45- year old male patient with difficulty in breathing and swallowing complaints for five years...

A case of lingual thyroid with hypothyroidism.

Radiofrequency ablation as a novel treatment for lingual thyroid.

Case Report A 10 year old female with an 8 year history of a base of tongue mass presented after two months of increasing size and symptoms of dysphagia (Figure 1). Diagnosis of lingual thyroid (and only functional thyroid tissue) was confirmed by thyroid scan. Resection was performed by transoral endoscopic RF ablation (Figures 2,3). Intraoperatively, the total blood loss was 20cc and time for...

Iodine 131 ablation of an obstructive lingual thyroid.

A 48-year-old woman undergoing surgery could not be intubated because of an oropharyngeal mass. CT and MRI revealed a 3 cm possible lingual thyroid mass, confirmed by Iodine-123 SPECT/CT. The patient underwent successful Iodine-131 ablation and has done well on thyroid hormone-replacement therapy. This case also demonstrates how modern cross-sectional imaging like SPECT/CT can appropriately be ...