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  • Lingual thyroid: tongue-splitting incision for transoral excision

  • Bishara S. Atiyeh, Amir Abdelnour, Fadi F. Haddad, Hussein Ahmad
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 109 / Issue 6 / June 1995
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 June 2007, pp. 520-524
    Print publication:
    June 1995

  • Two patients presenting to the Central Military Hospital of Beirut with symptomatic lingual thyroid are reported. I131 thyroid scanning revealed the lingual thyroid to be the only functional thyroid tissue present in each patient. Subsequent CT scanning demonstrated the large size of these ectopic thyroids causing significant mechanical obstruction. These were excised transorally using a posterior midline tonguesplitting incision and reimplanted in the rectus abdominis muscles.

    Details of this modified tongue-splitting surgical approach are described. A brief review of the literature concerning lingual thyroid and its surgical treatment is also presented as well as three patients operated on for lingual thyroid at the American University of Beirut Medical Centre between 1975 and 1994 using an external neck incision.