We report here a rare case of lateral ectopia of thyroid without orthotopic thyroid tissue in an Indian teenager, who was referred to our department for a thyroid scintigraphy. Technetium Pertechnetate (99mTcO4- ) scan showed uptake in laterally placed soft tissue structure along with functioning thyroid tissue in high anterior midline neck region in line with thyroglossal...

despite increasing detection rates of various forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (tb), thyroid involvement with tubercle bacilli is rarely encountered and its imaging features have been reported in less than a handful of cases. herein, we present the clinical, pathologic and imaging (ultrasound and ct scan) features of tb involvement of the thyroid gland in a 65-year-old woman who presented w...

anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is an uncommon, highly aggressive malignancy usually presenting in the elderly. an eighteen year old boy was recently diagnosed as anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid.  pet/cect scan performed for staging, revealed a large fdg avid heterogeneously enhancing thyroid mass with bilateral jugular venous thrombosis, which also showed increased fdg uptake, thus pointing t...

Parotid metastasis originated from papillary thyroid carcinoma is extremely rare, especially as the first presentation of the disease. We present a 70-year-old man with a history of painless swelling in the right side of the neck. He was evaluated for parotid tumor and histopathologic examination revealed a poorly differentiated carcinoma in the parotid gland with suspicion of thyroid origin. T...

BACKGROUND Ultrasound is routinely used in evaluating thyroid nodules and performing fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Occasionally, nonthyroidal lesions can mimic thyroid nodules on imaging and get wrongly aspirated. METHODS A 63-year-old woman was reported to have an incidental left thyroid "nodule" on neck ultrasound scan. It was isoechoic with a surrounding hypoechoic rim and contai...

A 54 years old female with history of total thyroidectomy for papillary carcinoma, treated with lOOmCi of iodine-131 and negative whole body scans was referred for follow up study. Tl-201 scan revealed an area of radiotracer uptake in the neck region, suggestive of a parathyroid adenoma versus recurrence of thyroid carcinoma. The patient was operated, the parathyroid adenoma was removed. ...

A 64-year-old man presented with clinical unilateral thyroiditis after chronic left neck trauma from his car seat belt. Thyroid function tests were normal. The initial thyroid Tc-99m pertechnetate scan demonstrated decreased uptake in the entire left lobe of the thyroid. The follow-up scan 1 month later showed a more normal uptake in the left lobe. This patient's clinical course, laboratory val...

because of superficial location and not being covered by boney structure, thyroid is the ideal organ for 2-dimensional gray scale ultrasonography. availability of relatively low cost equipment and ever increasing number of endocrinologists with expertise in thyroid ultrasound has made it an integral part of thyroid practice in the office of endocrinologists. in particular, the current recommend...