[Bilobar Thyroid Agenesis].
A case of a 27-year-old female patient presenting with bilateral agenesis of the thyroid gland and a benign euthyroid adenoma of the isthmus and the pyramidal lobe is reported. The patient had for several years been followed for a cystic nodule that was presumed to have developed from the left thyroid lobe, having recently increased in size. Scintigraphic and echographic studies evoked the absence of right lobe. Direct examination at cervicotomy found hypoplasia of the two lobes. This report highlights the similarity of this rare anomaly to widely known hemiagenesis.
Attipou
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K
Service de Chirurgie Viscérale et Transplantations, C.H.U. Dupuytren, 2, Avenue Martin Luther-King, 87042 Limoges.
Cheynel
N
N
Aubry
K
K
Pech de Laclause
B
B
Durand-Fontanier
S
S
Valleix
D
D
Descottes
B
B
D000328:Adult; D003560:Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*