Mediastinum
Nonneoplastic
Ectopic tissue in thymus
Author: Hanni Gulwani, M.B.B.S.
Topic Completed: 1 December 2012
Minor changes: 20 November 2019
Copyright: 2003-2019, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
PubMed Search: Ectopic tissue in thymus[TI]
Cite this page: Gulwani H. Ectopic tissue in thymus. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/mediastinumectopictissue.html. Accessed November 30th, 2020.
Definition / general
- Usually parathyroid tissue or sebaceous glands, rarely thyroid tissue
Case reports
- Woman with heterotopic intrathymic thyroid tissue (Pathol Int 2006;56:629)
