ReviewDer Pathologe2018
[Ectopic tissue of the thyroid gland and the parathyroid glands].
Review in Der Pathologe, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cervical lymph node metastasis from occult tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma with incidental ectopic parathyroid tissue: a case report.Journal of surgical case reports · 2026Article
- Case report: ectopic papillary thyroid carcinoma found in the midline of the hyoid bone and cervical lymph nodes, no thyroid lesions.AME case reports · 2026Article
- Case Series: Postoperative recurrent secondary hyperparathyroidism caused by ectopic submandibular parathyroid: 3 cases report and literature review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Review
- Common Key Genes in Differentiating Parathyroid Adenoma From Thyroid Adenoma.Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme · 2023Article
- The magic mirror: a novel intraoperative monitoring method for parathyroid glands.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
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- Safety and effectiveness of reoperation for persistent or recurrent drug refractory secondary hyperparathyroidism.Gland surgery · 2020Article
- [Ectopic thyroid tissue in the adrenal gland : A case report and review of the literature].Der Pathologe · 2020Review
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Abstract
Ectopic thyroid tissue results from developmental defects of the early stages of thyroid embryogenesis, in which the median thyroid anlage descends from the floor of the mouth to its final pre-tracheal position. The most common sites of ectopic thyroid tissue are accordingly in the area of the floor of the mouth and in the course of the thyroglossal duct. Rare localizations are intrathoracic (mediastinal, cardiac, pulmonary) and sub-diaphragmatic (including the adrenals, liver, gall bladder, and gastrointestinal tract). The most important differential diagnosis of ectopic thyroid is metastasis of differentiated thyroid carcinoma.By contrast, the term parathyroidectopy is not uniformly defined. Usually, the cervical-central localizations are referred to as "positional variants" (with the exception of the maxillary sinus and high parapharyngeal), whereas the cervical-lateral localizations (carotid sheath, vagus nerve) and those below the brachiocephalic and mediastinal positions (extraligamentary, aortopulmonary window, paravagal) and other rare localizations are classified as "ectopic parathyroid tissue". Parathyroidectomy is very common (in autopsy studies in 28 to 42.8% of all humans). In the context of primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT), there is a prevalence of 6.3 to 16% of ectopic hyperfunctional parathyroid tissue (predominantly adenomas), which play an important role in the surgical treatment of pHPT.
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