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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">648</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>NORMAL FUNCTIONING MEDITATIONAL ECTOPIC THYROID - A RARE CASE REPORT&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Softah</surname><given-names>Abdullateef</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>17</fpage><lpage>20</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>We reported a 34 yrs old who had presented with a huge goiter in the neck and a separate mediastinal huge thyroid mass. He had tracoesophageal compression causing dysphagia and dysphonia. After investigations patient underwent two separate operations. One for Neck goiter and second for the mediastinal goiter. Literature is reviewed&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Thyrothymus membrane</kwd><kwd> Mediastinal thyroid tissue</kwd><kwd> Thyroid gland embryogenesis</kwd><kwd> Mediastinal tumors</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
