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A 12-Year Follow-Up

Henry Swan, MD, DSc; Dalton Jenkins, MD; Janet Schemmel, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1967;94(6):817-820.

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TWO patients with lingual thyroid have had autotransplantation of thyroid tissue in this hospital. The first patient, reported in 1952,¹ underwent total excision of the lesion followed by a rapidly improvised attempt at autotransplantation. The latter was partially successful in that the autografts concentrated radioiodine. However, hormone secretion was inadequate for the maintenance of euthyroidism. Subsequently, experimental studies² resulted in standardization of surgical techniques required for successful thyroid autotransplantation, so that we were better prepared to undertake this procedure again when the second case of lingual thyroid was encountered in 1954. The procedure used in the latter patient and the results observed over a three-year period of follow-up were reported in 1958.³ This paper describes the patient's course and the fate of the autograft over a 12-year period following transplantation.

Report of Case

A 7-year-old girl was admitted to the Colorado General Hospital in October 1954 because . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Denver

From the departments of surgery and medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec 12, 1966.

Reprint requests to Surgical Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 (Dr. Swan).

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