Familial thyroid ectopy and hemiagenesis.
Open Access
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 55 (8) , 639-641
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.55.8.639
Abstract
Two siblings had sublingual thyroid glands and hypothyroidism. A third sibling had a left lobe agenesis of the thyroid, but normal function of the gland. This is the second such family to be described.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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