Thyroid Tissue Connected to Normally Located Thyroid Gland: Ectopic or Exophytic?
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Thyroid Tissue Connected to Normally Located Thyroid Gland: Ectopic or Exophytic?
Ectopic thyroid tissue is seen rarely. It is often seen in cervical midline, and rarely in other areas such as submandibular area. Diagnosis is made histopathologically by fine needle biopsy after the elimination of malignancy. In the treatment of ectopic thyroid tissue, surgical excision is mostly applied. According to our knowledge, there is no exophytic thyroid tissue reported in the literat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Otolaryngology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2090-6765,2090-6773
DOI: 10.1155/2012/681823