Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Otolaryngology, University of Malaya Medical Centre, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
Singapore Med J, 2008 May;49(5):e137-8.
PMID: 18465039

Abstract

An ectopic location of the thyroid gland usually occurs in the midline, starting anywhere from the tongue to the diaphragm. The occurrence of an ectopic thyroid gland in a non-midline site is extremely rare. We report a 32-year-old Malay woman with an aberrant thyroid gland presenting as a parapharyngeal lesion. She had a normally functioning thyroid gland. An ectopic thyroid should be considered as one of the differential diagnoses in the parapharyngeal mass.

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