Open AccessAgenesis and not ectopia is common in North Indian children with thyroid dysgenesis
Author(s) -
Devi Dayal,
Lakshminarasimhan Sindhuja,
Anish Bhattacharya,
Kushaljit Singh Sodhi,
Naresh Sachdeva
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.456
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2230-9500
pISSN - 2230-8210
DOI - 10.4103/2230-8210.145080
Subject(s) - medicine , dysgenesis , agenesis , thyroid , congenital hypothyroidism , hypoplasia , ectopic thyroid , pediatrics , retrospective cohort study , surgery , anatomy
Ectopic Thyroid Gland (ETG) is known to be the most common form of thyroid dysgenesis in children with permanent congenital hypothyroidism (CH). Recent reports indicate that agenesis or hypoplasia of thyroid gland may be commoner as compared to ETG in thyroid dysgenesis (TD). There is limited information available on the proportion of different variants of TD in Indian children.