Thyroid hemiagenesis and Graves' disease in a child.
Hemiagenesis of the thyroid is a rare malformation and Graves' disease with ophthalmopathy is reported quite rarely in adult patients but is not seen in children. This is a report of an 8-year-old girl with congenital absence of the left thyroid lobe, or hemiagenesis.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Meram Medical School, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey. mserden1@yahoo.com
Mustafa
M
Serdengeçti
Asli
A
Ayan
Oktay
O
Sari
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D050033:Thyroid Dysgenesis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography