Hypertrophic Lingual Thyroid Causing Sleep Apnea
Ectopic lingual thyroid disorder, developing as a consequence of thyroid gland migration during early embryogenesis, is a rarely seen congenital anomaly. In this paper, we report a 39-year-old male patient with snoring and moderate-level obstructive sleep apnea who received the diagnosis of lingual...
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Language: | English |
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Galenos Yayincilik
2014-06-01
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Series: | Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology |
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http://turkarchotolaryngol.net/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/hypertrophic-lingual-thyroid-causing-sleep-apnea/43393
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