Dual thyroid ectopia with a normally located pretracheal thyroid gland: Case report and literature review

Head and Neck

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 885-888

  Huang, Ting Shuo ^a   Chen, Huang Yang ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dual thyroid ectopy; Ectopic thyroid; Lateral neck masses; Neck swelling; Submandibular mass

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; THYROXINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; LINGUAL THYROID; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NECK; NECK TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; THYROID GLAND; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY;

AGED; CHORISTOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37349079186     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20604     Document Type: Article

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