Bilateral papillary thyroid cancer with normal aberrant thyroid tissue

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Bilateral papillary thyroid cancer with normal aberrant thyroid tissue Via radioactive iodine J Surg Case Rep. 2021 Dec 24;2021(12):rjab578. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjab578. eCollection 2021 Dec. ABSTRACT Ectopic thyroid tissue, 90% presenting in lingual zone, is often scanned by ultra-sonography or computed tomography. Most surgeons regard ectopic thyroid as metastatic foci from thyroid cancer, thus resection is recommended. Here, we reported a man with bilateral papillary thyroid cancer, accompany with normal ectopic thyroid tissue in right sternocleidomastoid muscle. In this c ase, we highlighted: (i) It is rarely reported that ectopic normal thyroid tissue presented in sternocleidomastoid muscle. (ii) The ectopic thyroid tissue may not always be metastatic foci even though bilateral thyroid tumors were confirmed to be papillary cancer. (iii) Contrary to radical excision of all ectopic thyroid tissue, we advocate that only patients who need to receive the radioactive iodine therapy after total thyroidectomy should remove the ectopic normal thyroid tissue. PMID:34987763 | PMC:PMC8711861 | DOI:10.1093/jscr/rjab578 View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.