Thyrotoxicosis Associated with a Hypopharyngeal Toxic Nodular Thyroid

S Ali Imran; Adam Hinchey; Rob Hart; Martin Bullock; Andrew Ross; Steven Burrell

doi:10.1155/2017/5128563

Thyrotoxicosis Associated with a Hypopharyngeal Toxic Nodular Thyroid

Case Rep Endocrinol. 2017:2017:5128563. doi: 10.1155/2017/5128563. Epub 2017 Nov 2.

Authors

S Ali Imran¹, Adam Hinchey², Rob Hart³, Martin Bullock⁴, Andrew Ross⁵, Steven Burrell⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
² Dalhousie Medical School, Halifax, NS, Canada.
³ Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
⁵ Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Abstract

Ectopic thyroid is a rare developmental anomaly which may be either asymptomatic or present with thyroid dysfunction as well as pressure symptoms. Here we present a novel case of thyrotoxicosis associated with a hypopharyngeal multinodular thyroid in a female. Removal of the ectopic thyroid led to normalization of the thyroid status.

Publication types

Case Reports