During SCV catheterization under US guidance in paediatric patients, the SC approach yielded a shorter puncture time and decreased the incidence of guidewire misplacement when compared with the IC approach.

We present the CT and MRI findings in a 75-year-old woman with a huge pathologically proven lingual thyroid which underwent goitrous degeneration. CT and MRI showed a midline, tongue-based, exophytic mass with areas of necrosis and heterogeneous contrast enhancement, as seen in large goitres in the normal thyroid gland.