Papillary Microcarcinoma of Sublingual Thyroid Gland: A Case Report

Ectopic thyroid gland is a rare condition where the thyroid is not placed in the pre-tracheal region. Majority of cases are commonly located at the lingual portion. The malignant shift of ectopic thyroid is considered a rare manifestation with a challenging surgical approach. Here we report our mana...

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Autores principales: Marzouki, Hani Z, Aldajani, Ahmad, Merdad, Mazin, Saber, Wafa, Amer, Ibrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Otolaryngology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7047928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32140366
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6810
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author Marzouki, Hani Z
Aldajani, Ahmad
Merdad, Mazin
Saber, Wafa
Amer, Ibrahim
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description Ectopic thyroid gland is a rare condition where the thyroid is not placed in the pre-tracheal region. Majority of cases are commonly located at the lingual portion. The malignant shift of ectopic thyroid is considered a rare manifestation with a challenging surgical approach. Here we report our management and surgical approach of a patient with papillary microcarcinoma of sublingual thyroid gland presented to our facility.
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spelling pubmed-70479282020-03-05 Papillary Microcarcinoma of Sublingual Thyroid Gland: A Case Report Marzouki, Hani Z Aldajani, Ahmad Merdad, Mazin Saber, Wafa Amer, Ibrahim Cureus Otolaryngology Ectopic thyroid gland is a rare condition where the thyroid is not placed in the pre-tracheal region. Majority of cases are commonly located at the lingual portion. The malignant shift of ectopic thyroid is considered a rare manifestation with a challenging surgical approach. Here we report our management and surgical approach of a patient with papillary microcarcinoma of sublingual thyroid gland presented to our facility. Cureus 2020-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7047928/ /pubmed/32140366 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6810 Text en Copyright © 2020, Marzouki et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Marzouki, Hani Z
Aldajani, Ahmad
Merdad, Mazin
Saber, Wafa
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Papillary Microcarcinoma of Sublingual Thyroid Gland: A Case Report
title Papillary Microcarcinoma of Sublingual Thyroid Gland: A Case Report
title_full Papillary Microcarcinoma of Sublingual Thyroid Gland: A Case Report
title_fullStr Papillary Microcarcinoma of Sublingual Thyroid Gland: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Papillary Microcarcinoma of Sublingual Thyroid Gland: A Case Report
title_short Papillary Microcarcinoma of Sublingual Thyroid Gland: A Case Report
title_sort papillary microcarcinoma of sublingual thyroid gland: a case report
topic Otolaryngology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7047928/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6810
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