Open AccessPapillary Carcinoma in Median Aberrant Thyroid (Ectopic) - Case Report
Author(s) -
K Ashwin Hebbar,
Deshmane Vl,
Vijay Kumar,
Ravi Arjunan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - Slovenian
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/7626.4463
Subject(s) - ectopic thyroid , medicine , thyroid , thyroid carcinoma , papillary carcinoma , occult , pathology , carcinoma , alternative medicine
Median ectopic thyroid may be encountered anywhere from the foramen caecum to the diaphragm. Non lingual median aberrant thyroid (incomplete descent) usually found in the infrahyoid region and malignant transformation in this ectopic thyroid tissue is very rare. We report an extremely rare case of papillary carcinoma in non lingual median aberrant thyroid in a 25-year-old female. The differentiation between a carcinoma arising in the median ectopic thyroid tissue and a metastatic papillary carcinoma from an occult primary in the main thyroid gland is also discussed.