mal·a·scent

(mal'ă-sent'),

Failure of a structure that typically follows a cranially directed course during development (for example, the kidney) to ascend or to follow the normal course.

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Two different mediastinal parathyroid glands have been defined in the literature: the first type originates in the neck and descends into the chest with continuing glandular enlargement in the presence of negative intrathoracic pressure; the second type is the outcome of developmental malascent, which usually affects the inferior parathyroid glands or is due to supernumerary parathyroid glands.

Transcervical resection of two parathyroid adenomas located on the anterior mediastinum

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