Author name: Clinical and Medical Images

Ectopic thyroid – i.e. thyroid tissue being in locations other than the normal anterior neck region – is a rare disease with a prevalence of 1 per 100,000 to 300,000 people [1,2]. This condition results from developmental defects of thyroid gland embryogenesis passing the thyroglossal duct from the primitive foregut to the final position [2]. […]