Hasan TETİKER, Mehmet İlkay KOŞAR, Yasemin BALCI, Ceren GENÇER UĞUZ, Murat ŞAHAN

A variation of the thyroid cartilage: Absence of left superior cornu

Üst boynuz yokluğu, tiroid kıkırdağın konjenital veya edinsel anormalliklerinden biridir. Üstboynuz doğuştan bulunmayabilir veya sonradan disloke olabilir. Üst boynuz yokluğu yanlışlıklakırık olarak teşhis alabilir. Bu yazıda otopsi sonucu tesbit edilen, tiroid kıkırdağın sol üst boynuzubulunmayan 70 yaşında bir erkek olgu sunulmuştur.

Tiroid kıkırdağın bir varyasyonu: Sol üst boynuz yokluğu

The agenesis of superior cornu is one of the congenital or acquired abnormalities of the thyroidcartilage. Superior cornu may not be present congenitally or may be dislocated subsequently. Theagenesis of superior cornu may be diagnosed as a fracture mistakenly. In this article, 70-year-oldmale patient is presented who did not have left superior cornu of thyroid cartilage which wasdetected by autopsy.

PDF

___

1. Standring S. Gray's Anatomy: The anatomical basis of clinical practice, 40th edition. Churchill Liv- ingstone 2009.
2. Advenier AS, De La Grandmaison GL, Cavard S, Pyatigorskaya N, Malicier D, Charlier P. Laryngeal anomalies: Pitfalls in adult forensic autopsies. Med Sci Law 2014; 54:1-7.
3. Harjeet JI. Agenesis of superior cornua of thyroid cartilage in northwest indians. Journal of The Anatomical Society of India 1989; 38: 37-40.
4. Joshi MM, Joshi SS, Joshi SD. Absence of superior cornua: a rare variant of thyroid cartilage anatomy. International Journal of Students Research 2011; 1:88.
5. Browning ST, Whittet HB. A new and clinically symptomatic variant of thyroid cartilage anatomy. Clin Anat 2000; 13: 294-7.
6. Hajiioannou JK, Florou V, Kousoulos P. Superior thyroid cornu anatomical variation causing globus pharyngeous and dysphagia. Case Rep Med 2010; 2010: 142928.