ORIGINAL PAPERS
A CASE OF PAPILLARY ADENOCARCINOMA IN LATERAL CERVICAL ECTOPIC THYROID TISSUE
2017 Volume 60 Issue 2 Pages 90-94
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2017 Volume 60 Issue 2 Pages 90-94
Lateral cervical ectopic thyroid tissue is uncommonly seen in clinical practice. We encountered a patient with papillary adenocarcinoma in the arising from lateral cervical ectopic thyroid tissue.
A 40-year-old man presented to us with a left neck mass. After ultrasonography, MRI, and aspiration biopsy, we resected the cervical tumor. Histopathology revealed the diagnosis of papillary adenocarcinoma of the thyroid, including normal thyroid tissue. Therefore, the cervical tumor was diagnosed as papillary adenocarcinoma in the arising from lateral cervical ectopic thyroid tissue.
Ectopic thyroid diseases should be borne in mind in the differential diagnosis of cervical tumors.
