Ectopic Thyroid in Stomach; a Case Report

An ectopic thyroid is a form of thyroid dysgenesis in which an entire or parts of the thyroid gland may be located in another part of the body than what is the usual place. The most frequent location is the base of tongue. Although most cases are asymptomatic, symptoms related to tumor size and its...

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Autores principales: Rajabi, Parvin, Eftekhari, Seyed-Mehdi, Rouhani, Elham, Baradaran, Azar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iranian Society of Pathology 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5929397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29731804
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author Rajabi, Parvin
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Rouhani, Elham
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description An ectopic thyroid is a form of thyroid dysgenesis in which an entire or parts of the thyroid gland may be located in another part of the body than what is the usual place. The most frequent location is the base of tongue. Although most cases are asymptomatic, symptoms related to tumor size and its relationship with surrounding tissues, hormonal dysfunction and seldom malignancy may also occur. Any disease affecting the thyroid gland may involve the ectopic thyroid, including malignancy.
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spelling pubmed-59293972018-05-04 Ectopic Thyroid in Stomach; a Case Report Rajabi, Parvin Eftekhari, Seyed-Mehdi Rouhani, Elham Baradaran, Azar Iran J Pathol Case Report An ectopic thyroid is a form of thyroid dysgenesis in which an entire or parts of the thyroid gland may be located in another part of the body than what is the usual place. The most frequent location is the base of tongue. Although most cases are asymptomatic, symptoms related to tumor size and its relationship with surrounding tissues, hormonal dysfunction and seldom malignancy may also occur. Any disease affecting the thyroid gland may involve the ectopic thyroid, including malignancy. Iranian Society of Pathology 2018 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5929397/ /pubmed/29731804 Text en © 2017, IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-noncommercial 4.0 International License, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Ectopic Thyroid in Stomach; a Case Report
title_fullStr Ectopic Thyroid in Stomach; a Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Ectopic Thyroid in Stomach; a Case Report
title_short Ectopic Thyroid in Stomach; a Case Report
title_sort ectopic thyroid in stomach; a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5929397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29731804
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