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Dual ectopic thyroid: a report of two cases
P Hazarika1, S A Siddiqui, K Pujary
1Department of Otolaryngology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India.
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|July 11, 1998
Abstract:
Ectopic thyroid is an uncommon embryological aberration characterized by the presence of thyroid tissue at a site other than in its usual pretracheal region. Usually it occurs along the path of descent of the developing thyroid primodium from the foramen caecum, commonest being lingual followed by sublingual and in the anterior midline of neck at, or below, the level of the hyoid bone. It is unusual for lingual thyroid to present simultaneously with another ectopic thyroid; reported here are two such cases.