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Ultrasonographic appearance of submentally located ectopic thyroid tissue.
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99mTcO4- thyroid scintigraphy revealed no radioactivity at the normal thyroid location but very intensive accumulation of the radiotracer in the middle neck line, submentally, suggesting the ectopic thyroid tissue.
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Scintigraphy showed ectopic thyroid tissue located submentally without any uptake in the normal thyroid location (Figure 2).
MRI imaging of the head and neck showed an oval mass submentally at the level of the floor of the mouth and no thyroid in usual neck position.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed marked round formation in the submental region, in the projection of the floor of the mouth (Figure 3).