title: Lingual thyroid. A clinical and postmortem study.
abstract: 3 patients with lingual thyroid are reported. In addition, 5 patients are described with hypothyroidism in whom functioning thyroid tissue was only present at the base of the tongue without any noticeable swelling. In a postmortem study of 120 tongues, not a single case of lingual thyroid was encountered. The preponderance of females among cases of congenital hypothyroidism and/or lingual thyroid is discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002828:Choristoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D013961:Thyroid Gland; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology