Heterogeneous tissue in the thyroid fossa on ultrasound in infants with proven thyroid ectopia on isotope scan - a diagnostic trap

Abstract

The arcticle deals with diagnostics of the congenital hypothyroidism, with stress to the comparison of the scintigraphy an ultrasound scannings results, in combination with the thyroglobulin leve, TSH and fT4.

Keywords

• Thyroid ectopia
• congenital hypothyroidism
• ultrasound
• scintigraphy
• radioisotope imaging