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