Ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid masquerading as metastatic carcinoma of the lung: a rare case scenario

BACKGROUND: The intrapulmonary ectopic thyroid gland is exceedingly rare since the ectopic thyroid was discovered. Only eight cases have been reported in the worldwide literature. We present a case of multiple intrapulmonary ectopic thyroid glands with nodular goiter in a 10-year-old girl. CASE PRES...

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Autores principales: Zhuo, Yuejian, Yu, Han, Zhou, Xingjian, Zhang, Dongdong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10110484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37072721
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04003-3
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Yu, Han
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Zhang, Dongdong
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description BACKGROUND: The intrapulmonary ectopic thyroid gland is exceedingly rare since the ectopic thyroid was discovered. Only eight cases have been reported in the worldwide literature. We present a case of multiple intrapulmonary ectopic thyroid glands with nodular goiter in a 10-year-old girl. CASE PRESENTATION: The girl was found with multiple intrapulmonary nodules in bilateral lungs during the treatment of nodular goiter. The intrapulmonary lesions were initially thought to be a high possibility of metastatic cancer. A computed tomography-guided percutaneous lung biopsy was performed, and the pathological examination confirmed that the diagnosis was ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid. CONCLUSION: The ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid should be considered when children with nodular goiter presenting with suspected metastases in the lung. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12887-023-04003-3.
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spelling pubmed-101104842023-04-19 Ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid masquerading as metastatic carcinoma of the lung: a rare case scenario Zhuo, Yuejian Yu, Han Zhou, Xingjian Zhang, Dongdong BMC Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: The intrapulmonary ectopic thyroid gland is exceedingly rare since the ectopic thyroid was discovered. Only eight cases have been reported in the worldwide literature. We present a case of multiple intrapulmonary ectopic thyroid glands with nodular goiter in a 10-year-old girl. CASE PRESENTATION: The girl was found with multiple intrapulmonary nodules in bilateral lungs during the treatment of nodular goiter. The intrapulmonary lesions were initially thought to be a high possibility of metastatic cancer. A computed tomography-guided percutaneous lung biopsy was performed, and the pathological examination confirmed that the diagnosis was ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid. CONCLUSION: The ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid should be considered when children with nodular goiter presenting with suspected metastases in the lung. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12887-023-04003-3. BioMed Central 2023-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10110484/ /pubmed/37072721 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04003-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_full Ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid masquerading as metastatic carcinoma of the lung: a rare case scenario
title_fullStr Ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid masquerading as metastatic carcinoma of the lung: a rare case scenario
title_full_unstemmed Ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid masquerading as metastatic carcinoma of the lung: a rare case scenario
title_short Ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid masquerading as metastatic carcinoma of the lung: a rare case scenario
title_sort ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid masquerading as metastatic carcinoma of the lung: a rare case scenario
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10110484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37072721
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04003-3
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