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Graves' Disease in Eutopic Thyroid with Ectopic Mediastinal Thyroid Tissue: Role of Single Photon Emission Computed
Kanhaiyalal Agrawal1, P Sai Sradha Patro1, Kishore Kumar Behera2
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Abstract:
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.