title: Papillary thyroid carcinoma arising from a median ectopic thyroid with no thyroglossal duct remnant.
abstract: Thyroid carcinomas arising from ectopic thyroid tissue are uncommon;most of them arise from thyroid tissue in thyroglossal cysts. A rare case of a 66-year-old woman with papillary thyroid carcinoma arising from median ectopic thyroid tissue lacking a thyroglossal duct remnant is reported. The tumor was resected by Sistrunk's procedure, and the patient's postoperative course was good.
authors: Department of Otolaryngology, Himeji Red Cross Hospital, Himeji, Hyogo 670-8540, Japan. tomoyasutachibana@hotmail.co.jp
authors: Tomoyasu
authors: T
authors: Tachibana
authors: Yorihisa
authors: Y
authors: Orita
authors: Masayoshi
authors: M
authors: Fujisawa
authors: Yuya
authors: Y
authors: Ogawara
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013955:Thyroglossal Cyst / Q000473:pathology*; D000077273:Thyroid Cancer, Papillary; D050033:Thyroid Dysgenesis / Q000150:complications*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery