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KMID : 0378619920090010165
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Baptist Hospital Medical Journal
1992 Volume.9 No. 1 p.165 ~ p.168
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One Case of Lingual Thyroid
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정진욱
김상민/박구진/김종애
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Abstract
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The occurrence of a lingual thyroid is not common. It usually results from failure of descent from the foramen cecum of the primitive thyroid anlage in the embryo. The incidence is much higher in female and seventy percent or more of the cases
have
no
other functioning thyroid. While diagnosis may be suspected by clinical observation, it should be confirmed by scanning of the neck and tongue area after the ingestion of radioactive iodine and biopsy.
The treatment varies, depending upon the problem that arise.
Recently the authors experienced one case of lingual thyroid who admitted because of frequent horseness and the foreign body sensation of the throat.
It is a case of lingual thyroid with normally located functioning thyroid gland in 22 year-old female patient.
The coexience of a lingual thyroid with a normally located functioning thyroid gland is thus very rare. Therefore this one case of lingual thyroid are reported with review of literature.
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