Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thyroid imaging is of proven help in establishing a diagnosis of congenital hypothyroidism in newly referred infants. Radio-isotope and/or ultrasound imaging is commonly used; each has weaknesses but have complimentary strengths and thus have been used in combination in our centre since 1999. We undertook a retrospective review and analysis of ultrasound imaging in infants with proven thyroid ectopia to re-examine the diagnoses.Patients and...