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Ectopic tissue in thymus

Reviewer: Hanni Gulwani, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 23 February 2013, last major update December 2012
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General
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● Usually parathyroid tissue or sebaceous glands, rarely thyroid tissue

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

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