title: [A case of thyroid ectopia: its original diagnostic procedure].
abstract: A case of thyroid ectopy in a 8-years-old girl is here described. The diagnostic course of this case is quite particular. In fact the first sign of the disease was a morphological evidence of thyroid sketch at the basis of the tongue. There has never been evidence of thyroid bad functioning.
authors.affiliation: Day Hospital di Pediatria, Clinica N.S. di Lourdes, Massa di Somma (NA), Italia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giustardi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iannone
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giugliano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Di Bartolomeo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002828:Choristoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000175:diagnosis; D013961:Thyroid Gland; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Un caso di ectopia tiroidea: originale iter diagnostico.