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Intrathyroidal ectopic thymus in children: A benign lesion.
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- Intrathyroidal thymic tissue: a pediatric case series from a secondary care center.Annals of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism · 2026Article
- Significance of ectopic intrathyroidal thymic tissue detected on ultrasound in different paediatric age groups: a proposed classification to guide investigation and management.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Ectopic thymus in the neonatal period: A case report.Radiology case reports · 2024Article
- Enigmatic thymus: Variations in anatomical localisation of thymic tissue as an easily misdiagnosed congenital anomaly in surgical practice.World journal of clinical cases · 2024Article
- Ultrasound findings of the thyroid gland in children and adolescents.Journal of ultrasound · 2023Article
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- Ectopic intrathyroidal thymic tissue in an adult patient: a case report and review of the literature.Journal of medical case reports · 2022Review
- Prevalence of cervical extension of the thymus in children.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Fine needle aspiration of hematolymphoid lesions of the thyroid: Onsite adequacy and ancillary testing.CytoJournal · 2022Article
- Intrathyroidal Thymus (Incidentaloma) Mimicking Thyroid Neoplasia in DICER1 Syndrome.European thyroid journal · 2021Article
- Ultrasound Imaging of Cervical Anatomic Variants.Current medical imaging · 2021Article
- Application of Shear Wave Sonoelastography in the Differential Diagnosis of Extra- and Intra-Thyroidal Ectopic Thymic Tissue.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Long-Term Follow-Up Ultrasonographic Findings of Intrathyroidal Thymus in Children.Korean journal of radiology · 2020Article
- Long-term ultrasound follow-up of intrathyroidal ectopic thymus in children.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2020Article
- Sonographic and Elastographic Features of Extra- and Intrathyroidal Ectopic Thymus Mimicking Malignancy: Differential Diagnosis in Children.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2019Article
- The Role of Superb Microvascular Imaging and Shear Wave Elastography in Differentiation of Thyroid Nodules from Intrathyroidal Ectopic Thymus in Children.Acta endocrinologica (Bucharest, Romania : 2005)Article
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Abstract
As ultrasound is commonly used these days, more and more lesions are found incidentally, including simple cysts, isoechoic nodules, and hypoechoic nodules, such as ectopic thymus. We here report the prevalence of ectopic thymus and its natural course.We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 690 subjects (342 males, 348 females) who were under 18 years old and had undergone neck or thyroid ultrasound at Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital from January 2014 to June 2017. Ectopic thymus was defined when the incidental lesion was hypo- to iso-echoic compared to adjacent muscles with vascularity and did not have a connection to the thymus in the mediastinum.Of the 690 children, 16 (9 males, 7 females; median and ranges of age at diagnosis, 13 months and 18 days to 10 years) were diagnosed as having ectopic thymus. The most common location of ectopic thymus was in the inferior aspect of the left thyroid lobe. The median and ranges of the longest diameter at the time of initial diagnosis was 22.5 mm and 8 mm to 38 mm, respectively. Four cases underwent follow-up ultrasound, of which 3 cases showed no change in size and 1 case showed decreased size.Ectopic thymus should be kept in mind when a lesion is found in the neck and thyroid incidentally, and physicians should reassure parents about its benign course.
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