Papillary carcinoma arising in subhyoid ectopic thyroid gland with no orthotopic thyroid tissue.
Ectopic thyroid gland with no orthotopic thyroid tissue is extremely rare. The authors present a case of a follicular variant of papillary carcinoma developed from an ectopic thyroid gland with no orthotopic thyroid tissue.
Sevinç
Ali Ibrahim
AI
Departments of Surgery and Pathology, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey.
Unek
Tarkan
T
Canda
Aras Emre
AE
Guray
Merih
M
Kocdor
Mehmet Ali
MA
Saydam
Serdar
S
Harmancioglu
Omer
O
D000328:Adult; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography; D050033:Thyroid Dysgenesis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery