Case Report

Mediastinal ectopic benign colloid goitre detected using iodine‑131 whole body scintigraphy and single‑photon emission computed tomography‑computed tomography Koramadai Karuppusamy Kamaleshwaran, Firoz Rajan1, Premkumar Asokumar2, Vyshak Mohanan, Ajit Sugunan Shinto Departments of Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT and Radionuclide Therapy and 1Surgical Oncology, Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital Limited, Coimbatore, 2Department of Endocrinology, SKS Hospital Salem, Tamil Nadu, India

ABSTRACT Ectopic thyroid tissue primarily occurs along the course of the embryologic migration of the thyroid gland.

Mediastinal thyroid may be differentiated into primary and secondary form. Primary mediastinal goiters are quite rare, occurring in 

Mediastinal ectopic benign colloid goitre detected using iodine-131 whole body scintigraphy and single-photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography.

Ectopic thyroid tissue primarily occurs along the course of the embryologic migration of the thyroid gland. Mediastinal thyroid may be differentiated ...
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