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Dual thyroid ectopia with a normally located pretracheal thyroid gland: Case report and literature review

HEAD & NECK: JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENCES & SPECIALTIES OF THE HEAD AND NECK, Issue 9 2007
Ting-Shuo Huang MD
Abstract Background. Only 1 case with dual thyroid ectopy and a normally located thyroid gland has been reported. Methods. We present the case of a 71-year-old woman who had 1-sided lateral neck swelling in the right submandibular space, which grew and doubled in size within 1 year. A CT scan demonstrated 2 right submandibular, lobulated, heterogeneously enhanced masses, an ectopic lingual thyroid, and bilateral thyroid goiter. A Tc-99m sodium pertechnetate thyroid scan revealed a cold area in the right lateral neck region below the submandibular gland, an ectopic lingual thyroid, and bilateral pretracheal thyroids. She underwent total thyroidectomy and en bloc excision of right neck masses. Thyroxin was prescribed following the surgery. Results. Pathological diagnoses were ectopic thyroid tissue with goitrous change and bilateral thyroid goiter. Conclusion. This report demonstrates that dual ectopic thyroid tissue accompanying a normally located thyroid gland can exist and should be differentiated from head and neck malignancies. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck 2007 [source]

A unique variant of Darier's disease

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, Issue 4 2001
Christopher M. Peterson MD
A 45-year-old black woman presented with a chief complaint of an increasing number of ,,light spots'' on her face, upper trunk, and legs. She had a 4-year history of a pruritic eruption on the dorsum of her hands. The eruption was particularly pruritic in the summer months. Other family members, including her sister and her daughters, reportedly had a similar dermatologic problem. The patient had been previously evaluated and biopsied by another dermatologist. The earlier biopsy was nondiagnostic, however, and she presented for further evaluation of this problem. On physical examination, the patient had hypopigmented macules along her jawline (Fig. 1), lateral neck, and upper chest. She had similar hypopigmented macules on her thighs. She had hyperkeratosis of the palmoplantar surface of her hands and feet. The dorsum of her hands had numerous coalescing, shiny, flat-topped, hypopigmented papules (Fig. 2), and several of her fingernails had distal, V-shaped notching. Figure 1. Hypopigmented macules on the cheek and along the jawline Figure 2. Coalescing, hypopigmented papules on the dorsal aspect of the fingers and hand, with distal notching of the fingernails A punch biopsy from a papule on the dorsum of her hand was obtained. The epidermis had corps ronds present with focal areas of acantholysis above the basal layer (Fig. 3). The dermis had sparse, superficial, perivascular infiltrates composed of lymphocytes and histiocytes. These changes were consistent with our clinical diagnosis of Darier's disease (keratosis follicularis). Figure 3. Corps ronds (large arrow) and focal acantholysis with suprabasal clefts (small arrow) are present in the epidermis (hematoxylin and eosin; original magnification, ×,40) [source]

Surgical removal of a fish hook from the oesophagus of a turtle

AUSTRALIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL, Issue 1-2 2002
RJ HYLAND
An adult male Macquarie turtle was presented for examination after swallowing a fish hook. Radiographs taken to determine the position of this foreign body within the gastrointestinal tract revealed the fish hook lodged in the turtle's oesophagus. Surgical removal of the fish hook involved an approach through the soft tissues of the lateral neck. The turtle recovered well and was returned to the wild. [source]

Surgical removal of a fish hook from the oesophagus of a turtle

AUSTRALIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL, Issue 1 2002
RJ HYLAND
An adult male Macquarie turtle was presented for examination after swallowing a fish hook. Radiographs taken to determine the position of this foreign body within the gastrointestinal tract revealed the fish hook lodged in the turtle's oesophagus. Surgical removal of the fish hook involved an approach through the soft tissues of the lateral neck. The turtle recovered well and was returned to the wild. [source]