Abstracto

lingual thyroid our experience

Balasubramanian Thiagarajan, Karthikeyan Arjunan, Seethalakshmi Narashiman

Lingual thyroid is an uncommon congenital disorder of thyroid gland development, resulting in a lack of descend of the gland from foramen caecum to its normal prelaryngeal location. In this paper we discuss a series of cases of ectopic thyroid gland its incidence, clinical presentation, sex ratio, age group, endocrine status, radiological features and appropriate surgical approaches.