Ectopic Parathyroid in an Ectopic Cervical Thymus in a Patient with Parathyroid Adenoma

• DOI: 10.4274/tjem.2389
• Publication Date: 2014-10-27T12:37:56Z
• Authors: Abdolali Ebrahimi; Mehrdad Moghimi; Forough Yousefi
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 03 medical and health sciences

The development of the thymus is linked to that parathyroid glands, which are small endocrine glands in neck and produce hormone responsible for calcium homeostasis (1). a lymphoepithelial organ derived embryologically from third fourth pharyngeal pouches, descend anterior mediastinum by sixth week gestation (2). Because dorsal wing pouch with thymus, an ectopic thymus-parathyroid complex, mechanistically suggests aberrant migration (3). Inthis paper, we report these rare concomitant events discuss other literature, briefly.