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Lingual Thyroid: Behaviour after Transplantation
Author(s) -
Lawson Rodent S.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1969.tb06301.x
Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , thyroid , surgery , pediatrics , general surgery
A progress report is given of a patient who had a lingual thyroid treated by excision and transplantation in 1956, when she was 11 years old. The behaviour of the thyroid transplant over 15 years is described, together with the history of two children born to the patient during this period.