There can be thyroid tissue in other parts of the body.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15744160
and this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3197173/
This tissue could be active and responding to pituitary signals.
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