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99m Tc Pertechnetate for Detection of Ectopic Dysgenesis of the Thyroid in Childhood Hypothyroidism
Author(s) -
WARNE G. L.,
ANDREWS J. T.,
McKAY W. J.,
WETTENHALL H. N. B.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1978.tb02932.x
Subject(s) - ectopic thyroid , medicine , pertechnetate , thyroid , congenital hypothyroidism , dysgenesis , pediatrics , endocrinology , technetium , pathology , nuclear medicine , anatomy
99m Tc pertechnetate for detection of ectopic dysgenesis of the thyroid in childhood hypothyroidism. 99m Tc pertechnetate scans of the neck and pharyngeal region were performed on 29 hypothyroid children. Eleven were found to have lingual or sublingual thyroid tissue. No child with persisting ectopic thyroid tissue was intellectually impaired, but 5 of 14 athyreotic children were of subnormal intelligence. Early thyroid scanning of hypothyroid infants can be of prognostic value. In addition, all children who had become hypothyroid between the ages of 6. and 11 years were found to have ectopic glands.