Clara Rafael Silva Xavier, Lucas de Faria Barros Medeiros, Artur Dantas Freire1, Thiago Emanuel Véras Lemos, Amália Cínthia Meneses Rêgo, Irami Araújo-Filho
The presence of ectopic thyroid tissue is a rare entity. The non-gland migration occurs in the early stages of embryogenesis to your normal cervical location. Thus, the ectopic tissue lodges in general in the path of the thyroglossal duct, in the middle line of the neck. The most common location is in the lingual zone, being called a lingual thyroid. This, in most cases will be asymptomatic. However, it is able to manifest itself with symptoms of dysphagia, dysphonia, obstruction of upper airways or hemorrhage at any moment between childhood and adulthood. This article is a review of this disease, targeting mainly the conduct, still very controversial in world literature.
