title: Functional lingual thyroid as unusual cause of progressive Dysphagia.
abstract: Lingual thyroid is an uncommon developmental anomaly and is the result of failure of the thyroid to descend from the foramen caecum to its prelaryngeal site. The lingual thyroid with a functioning thyroid gland in the neck is even more rare. In this report, we describe a 40-year-old female patient with a foreign body sensation and progressive dysphagia caused by ectopic lingual thyroid that is 5 x 4 x 3 cm in size. Here we present a patient with functional lingual thyroid gland who had had thyroidectomy 20 years ago. Lingual thyroid, which is like a malignant mass, was excised by external approach without complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, Erciyes University Medical School, Kayseri, Turkey. fbayram@erciyes.edu.tr
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bayram
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Külahli
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yüce
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gökçe
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cagli
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Deniz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002828:Choristoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology; D014060:Tongue Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*