title: Chemodectoma in the mid-thyroid region.
abstract: A chemodectoma (non-chromafin paraganglioma), which presented as a neck mass in the mid-thyroid region, is reported in a 36 year old female. Clinically, it resembled a thyroglossal duct cyst and on frozen section it looked like a thyroid adenoma.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003594:Cytoplasmic Granules / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000473:pathology*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*