Open AccessGraves' disease in eutopic thyroid with ectopic mediastinal thyroid tissue: Role of single photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography
Author(s) -
Kanhaiyalal Agrawal,
P. Sai Sradha Patro,
Kishore Kumar Behera
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_64_19
Subject(s) - medicine , ectopic thyroid , thyroid , computed tomography , radiology , graves' disease , mediastinum , tomography , emission computed tomography , pathology , positron emission tomography
Ectopic thyroid is a rare embryological aberration due to defective migration. Most patients with ectopic thyroid tissue have absent thyroid gland in normal anatomical position and present with hypothyroidism. We present a patient with Graves' disease in the eutopic thyroid with ectopic thyroid tissue in the mediastinum and usefulness of single-photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography.