caa a22 4500 475784286 CHVBK 20180406123653.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s004310051307 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s004310051307 Prevalence of thyroid hemiagenesis: ultrasound screening in normal children [Elektronische Daten] [Wael Shabana, Francois Delange, Maxime Freson, Michel Osteaux, Jean De Schepper] While performing a systematic ultrasound study of the thyroid gland volume for the evaluation of iodine deficiency in 2845 normal Belgian school children, we found an absence of the left lobe in 6 children (4 girls and 2 boys). There was no association with other thyroid malformations or dysfunction. Conclusion This first systematic ultrasound evaluation of thyroid hemiagenesis in normal children established a prevalence of thyroid hemiagenesis of 0.2% and confirmed the female predominance and higher incidence of agenesis of the left lobe. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Key words Thyroid gland nationallicence Echography nationallicence Morphogenesis nationallicence Shabana Wael Department of Radiology, Academic Hospital of the Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, BE aut Delange Francois The International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, Brussels, Belgium, BE aut Freson Maxime Department of Radiology, Academic Hospital of the Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, BE aut Osteaux Michel Department of Radiology, Academic Hospital of the Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, BE aut De Schepper Jean Department of Paediatrics, A.Z.-V.U.B., Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels, Belgium e-mail: peddsrj@az.vub.ac.be; Tel.: +32-2-4776061; Fax: +32-2-4775778, BE aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s004310051307 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s004310051307 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shabana Wael Department of Radiology, Academic Hospital of the Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, BE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Delange Francois The International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, Brussels, Belgium, BE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Freson Maxime Department of Radiology, Academic Hospital of the Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, BE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Osteaux Michel Department of Radiology, Academic Hospital of the Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, BE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- De Schepper Jean Department of Paediatrics, A.Z.-V.U.B., Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels, Belgium e-mail: peddsrj@az.vub.ac.be; Tel.: +32-2-4776061; Fax: +32-2-4775778, BE aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer