Case Report
Dual Thyroid Ectopy, Sublingual and Pretracheal
| Tariq Alam, Hidayatullah Hamidi* and Ahmad Reshad Faizi | |
| Radiology department of French medical institute for children (FMIC), Kabul, Afghanistan | |
| Corresponding Author : | Hidayatullah Hamidi Radiology department of French medical institute for children (FMIC) Kabul, Afghanistan Tel: 0093744733605 E-mail: hedayatullah.hamidi@gmail.com |
| Received May 14, 2015; Accepted June 04, 2015; Published June 08, 2015 | |
| Citation: Alam T, Hamidi H, Faizi AR (2015) Dual Thyroid Ectopy, Sublingual and Pretracheal. OMICS J Radiol 4:187. doi: 10.4172/2167-7964.1000187 | |
| Copyright: ©2015 Alam T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
Ectopic thyroid tissue is a rare congenital anomaly with extremely rare occurrence of dual ectopy. Authors present a case of a 13 year-old girl with anterior neck swelling since one year. Contrast enhanced CT demonstrated absence of normally located, bilobed thyroid gland, Instead two foci of ectopic thyroid tissue were seen in the lingual and pretracheal region. Imaging workup is of great value in diagnosing this rare entity.
