Lingual Thyroid in Its Normal Position: Report of Two Cases.
Lingual thyroid is a congenital anomaly caused by failure of migration of the thyroid gland in early embryogenesis. It may be asymptomatic or present with local symptoms. We present two cases with lingual thyroid, first one being in a 28-year-old female and the other in a 25-year-old male who had 20...
| Publicado en: | Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Medical Sciences Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 1183 - 1187 |
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| Formato: | case study diagnostic images pictorial Journal Article |
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Turkiye Klinikleri
Aug2012
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