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정진욱1, 김상민1, 박구진1, 김종애1
Jin Uck Jung1, Sang Min Kim1, Gu Jin Park1, Chong Ae Kim1
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1Department of Otolaryngology, Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital, Busan

© Copyright 1992 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

The occurrence of a lingual thyroid is not common. It usually results from failure of descent from the foramen cecum of the primitive thyroid anlage in the embryo. The incidence is much higher in female and seventy percent or more of the case have no other functioning thyroid.

While diagnosis may be suspected by clinical observation, it should be confirmed by scanning of the neck and tongue area after the ingestion of radioactive iodine, and biopsy.

The treatment varies, depending upon the problem that arise.

Recently the authors experienced one case of lingual thyroid who admitted because of frequent horseness and the foreign body sensation in the throat. It is a case of lingual thyroid with normally located functioning thyroid gland in 22 year-old female patient. The coexience of a lingual thyroid with a normally located functioning thyroid gland is thus very rare, so we report this case with review of literatures.

Keywords: Lingual thyroid; A case report