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Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach for Thyroid Lobectomy
Published on: May 12, 2023
[Papillary-follicular carcinoma arising in a lingual thyroid]
A M'hiri Chaabouni1, S Intidhar Labidi, T Kraiem
1Service de médecine nucléaire, Institut Salah Azaiez, Tunisie.
Objectives:
The management of diagnosis, treatment and outcome of malignant neoplasm arising in a lingual thyroid.
Material And Methods:
We report a case of papillary-follicular carcinoma arising in a lingual thyroid.
Results:
Lingual carcinoma causes dysphagia and pain due to oropharyngeal obstruction. Surgical pharyngotomy with a trans-hyoid approach provides good access to the lesions. Therefore, the eutopic thyroid was present, in pretracheal position, without neoplastic proliferation.
Conclusions:
Carcinoma arising in lingual thyroid is an extreme rare entity. Its diagnosis is histologic. Its treatment is surgical associated with radio-iodine therapy.
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