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Images were acquired 20 minutes after intravenous injection of NaTcO4. Planar image anterior view (a) and face turned to the right (b) show 2 foci of tracer uptake in the upper part of the neck. No tracer uptake was noted in the expected location of orthotopic thyroid gland. SPECT CT showed atrophic thyroid gland without any technetium uptake (c) and localized the ectopic thyroid tissues to the sub-hyoid location (d) and suprahyoid locations (e)
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Technetium thyroid scan [Figure 1] was performed to evaluate the functional status of the orthotopic thyroid gland.