Intrathyroidal thymic tissue mimicking a malignant thyroid nodule in a 4-year-old child

Intrathyroidal thymic tissue is rare and may be confused with a malignant thyroid nodule because of hyperechoic dots mimicking calcifications. We report the case of a thyroid nodule with malignant ultrasonographic findings in a 4-year-old child, which was confirmed cytologically as ectopic thymic ti...

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Autores principales: Park, So Hyun, Ryu, Chang-Woo, Kim, Gou Young, Shim, Kye Shik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24936498
http://dx.doi.org/10.14366/usg.13001
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author Park, So Hyun
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description Intrathyroidal thymic tissue is rare and may be confused with a malignant thyroid nodule because of hyperechoic dots mimicking calcifications. We report the case of a thyroid nodule with malignant ultrasonographic findings in a 4-year-old child, which was confirmed cytologically as ectopic thymic tissue. The sonographic findings of ectopic thymus were similar to those of the thymus; therefore, clinicians should be familiar with ultrasonography findings of normal thymic tissue.
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spelling pubmed-40589722014-06-16 Intrathyroidal thymic tissue mimicking a malignant thyroid nodule in a 4-year-old child Park, So Hyun Ryu, Chang-Woo Kim, Gou Young Shim, Kye Shik Ultrasonography Case Report Intrathyroidal thymic tissue is rare and may be confused with a malignant thyroid nodule because of hyperechoic dots mimicking calcifications. We report the case of a thyroid nodule with malignant ultrasonographic findings in a 4-year-old child, which was confirmed cytologically as ectopic thymic tissue. The sonographic findings of ectopic thymus were similar to those of the thymus; therefore, clinicians should be familiar with ultrasonography findings of normal thymic tissue. Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine 2014-01 2013-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4058972/ /pubmed/24936498 http://dx.doi.org/10.14366/usg.13001 Text en Copyright © 2014 Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (KSUM) This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Park, So Hyun
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Kim, Gou Young
Shim, Kye Shik
Intrathyroidal thymic tissue mimicking a malignant thyroid nodule in a 4-year-old child
title Intrathyroidal thymic tissue mimicking a malignant thyroid nodule in a 4-year-old child
title_full Intrathyroidal thymic tissue mimicking a malignant thyroid nodule in a 4-year-old child
title_fullStr Intrathyroidal thymic tissue mimicking a malignant thyroid nodule in a 4-year-old child
title_full_unstemmed Intrathyroidal thymic tissue mimicking a malignant thyroid nodule in a 4-year-old child
title_short Intrathyroidal thymic tissue mimicking a malignant thyroid nodule in a 4-year-old child
title_sort intrathyroidal thymic tissue mimicking a malignant thyroid nodule in a 4-year-old child
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24936498
http://dx.doi.org/10.14366/usg.13001
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