Ectopic thyroid in an adrenal mass: a case report

BACKGROUND: It is difficult to explain ectopic thyroid beneath the diaphragm because during the development the thyroid descends from the tongue to the anterior of the trachea. A few cases of ectopic lesions have been reported in the literature for abdominal organs including the adrenal glands, but...

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Autores principales: Hagiuda, Jun, Kuroda, Isao, Tsukamoto, Takuji, Ueno, Munehisa, Yokota, Chizuko, Hirose, Takanori, Deguchi, Nobuhiro
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1555601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16899136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2490-6-18
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author Hagiuda, Jun
Kuroda, Isao
Tsukamoto, Takuji
Ueno, Munehisa
Yokota, Chizuko
Hirose, Takanori
Deguchi, Nobuhiro
author_facet Hagiuda, Jun
Kuroda, Isao
Tsukamoto, Takuji
Ueno, Munehisa
Yokota, Chizuko
Hirose, Takanori
Deguchi, Nobuhiro
author_sort Hagiuda, Jun
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: It is difficult to explain ectopic thyroid beneath the diaphragm because during the development the thyroid descends from the tongue to the anterior of the trachea. A few cases of ectopic lesions have been reported in the literature for abdominal organs including the adrenal glands, but the mechanism by which the thyroid components migrate into the abdomen has been poorly understood. CASE PRESENTATION: A 54-year-old woman was diagnosed as having an adrenal mass. Laparoscopic adrenalectomy was carried out. Microscopically, the mass was composed of normal adrenal and ectopic thyroid tissues. CONCLUSION: We herein describe the fourth case reported of ectopic thyroid in the adrenal gland.
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spelling pubmed-15556012006-08-26 Ectopic thyroid in an adrenal mass: a case report Hagiuda, Jun Kuroda, Isao Tsukamoto, Takuji Ueno, Munehisa Yokota, Chizuko Hirose, Takanori Deguchi, Nobuhiro BMC Urol Case Report BACKGROUND: It is difficult to explain ectopic thyroid beneath the diaphragm because during the development the thyroid descends from the tongue to the anterior of the trachea. A few cases of ectopic lesions have been reported in the literature for abdominal organs including the adrenal glands, but the mechanism by which the thyroid components migrate into the abdomen has been poorly understood. CASE PRESENTATION: A 54-year-old woman was diagnosed as having an adrenal mass. Laparoscopic adrenalectomy was carried out. Microscopically, the mass was composed of normal adrenal and ectopic thyroid tissues. CONCLUSION: We herein describe the fourth case reported of ectopic thyroid in the adrenal gland. BioMed Central 2006-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC1555601/ /pubmed/16899136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2490-6-18 Text en Copyright © 2006 Hagiuda et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Hagiuda, Jun
Kuroda, Isao
Tsukamoto, Takuji
Ueno, Munehisa
Yokota, Chizuko
Hirose, Takanori
Deguchi, Nobuhiro
Ectopic thyroid in an adrenal mass: a case report
title Ectopic thyroid in an adrenal mass: a case report
title_full Ectopic thyroid in an adrenal mass: a case report
title_fullStr Ectopic thyroid in an adrenal mass: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Ectopic thyroid in an adrenal mass: a case report
title_short Ectopic thyroid in an adrenal mass: a case report
title_sort ectopic thyroid in an adrenal mass: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1555601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16899136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2490-6-18
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