Ectopic tissue in thymus

Mediastinum
Nonneoplastic
Ectopic tissue in thymus

Author: Hanni Gulwani, M.B.B.S.

Topic Completed: 1 December 2012

Revised: 20 November 2019

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Definition / general | Case reports

Cite this page: Gulwani H. Ectopic tissue in thymus. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/mediastinumectopictissue.html. Accessed December 10th, 2019.

Definition / general

Usually parathyroid tissue or sebaceous glands, rarely thyroid tissue

Case reports

Woman with heterotopic intrathymic thyroid tissue (Pathol Int 2006;56:629)