ECE2014 Poster Presentations Thyroid (non-cancer) (125 abstracts)
A case of primary hypothyroidism: Lingual thyroid
Yasin Öztürk 1 , Şenay Arıkan 2 , Yunus İlyas Kibar 1 , Ahmet Tay 1 & Mehmet Emin Ayhan 1
1Erzurum Bölge Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi İç Hastalıkları, Erzurum, Turkey; 2Erzurum Bölge Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Endokrinoloji Ve Metabolizma Kliniği, Erzurum, Turkey.
Lingual thyroid is an abnormal formation appearing as the result of a deficient descent during embryological development of the thyroid gland through the thyroglossal duct to its normal pretracheal location, and it is a rare embryological aberration. A 19 years old woman was admitted to with foreign-body-feeling, dysphonia, hoarseness, constipation. Examination showed a spherical, red fleshy and smooth contoured mass rat back of the tongue. Thyroid scan with technetium 99 m revealed isotope uptake in the base of tongue area and no uptake in the normal thyroid location. With these findings lingual thyroid was diagnosed. Surgical exision was not recommended since the lingual mass was the only functioning thyroid gland and medical treatment was appropriate. We aimed to present a case of lingual thyroid and hypothyroidism with laboratory and imaging findings.
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