True mediastinal ectopic goitre. Case report.
Heterotopic thyroid tissue is described to usually lie at the tongue base, while the 10% at the hyoid bone. We report a case of incidental diagnosis of a true mediastinal goitre with preoperative chest X-ray in a 35-year old woman with a multinodular cervical goitre.
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"Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy.
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Scarinci
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D000328:Adult; D002828:Choristoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013961:Thyroid Gland; D016896:Treatment Outcome