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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2012 Volume.46 No. 4 p.300 ~ p.303
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Dual Thyroid Ectopia with Graves¡¯ Disease: a Case Report and a Review of the Literature
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Tan Teik Hin
Lee Boon-Nang Hassan Siti Zarina Amir Ch¡¯ng Ewe Seng Hussein Zanariah
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Abstract
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Ectopic thyroid or thyroid ectopia is a rare developmental anomaly with the prevalence of 1 per 100,000?300,000 population. Even rarer, such an anomaly manifests as dual thyroid ectopia. To our best knowledge, only one case has been reported on dual thyroid ectopia with Graves¡¯ disease in the English literature. We present here a case of dual thyroid ectopia complicated by Graves¡¯ disease, whereby the diagnosis was rendered through judicious use of various diagnostic modalities coupled with a close clinical follow-up. In this case, therapeutic consideration should be personalized with proper informed consent of the patient.
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KEYWORD
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Dual thyroid ectopia, Dual ectopic thyroid, Graves¡¯ disease, 99mTc-pertechnetate thyroid scintigraphy
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