title: Unusual parapharyngeal lesion: aberrant thyroid gland.
abstract: An ectopic location of the thyroid gland usually occurs in the midline, starting anywhere from the tongue to the diaphragm. The occurrence of an ectopic thyroid gland in a non-midline site is extremely rare. We report a 32-year-old Malay woman with an aberrant thyroid gland presenting as a parapharyngeal lesion. She had a normally functioning thyroid gland. An ectopic thyroid should be considered as one of the differential diagnoses in the parapharyngeal mass.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, University of Malaya Medical Centre, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Feisal
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Prepageran
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shahrizal
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Zulkiflee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000002:abnormalities*