1. Ektopes Schilddrüsengewebe nach erfolgter Thyreoidektomie
- Author
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Ingo Todt, Holger Sudhoff, E Boga, A Yasin, and D Seitz
- Subjects
endocrine system ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,endocrine system diseases ,Ectopic Thyroid Gland ,medicine.disease_cause ,Thyroid dysgenesis ,Lesion ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Medicine ,030223 otorhinolaryngology ,Thyroid neoplasm ,business.industry ,fungi ,Thyroid ,food and beverages ,Hyperplasia ,Thyroid Gland Tissue ,medicine.disease ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Otorhinolaryngology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Hormone - Abstract
Ectopic thyroid gland tissue can occur either as the only detectable thyroid gland tissue or in addition to a normotopic thyroid gland. After a total thyroidectomy thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) can induce a compensatory volume increase of previously asymptomatic ectopic tissue. This hyperplastic ectopic tissue can occur as an unclear cervical space-occupying lesion. Prior to surgical exploration of an unclear cervical mass the possibility of ectopic thyroid tissue should be included in the differential diagnostic considerations.
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- 2019