A thyroglossal duct is a cyst or lump that develops in your neck or near your thyroid glands. It develops in the womb before birth and is usually diagnosed shortly after birth or during childhood. A ...

The difficulties encountered with a cancer evolving from a thyroglossal cyst include the following. First, diagnosis is usually made during surgery or from the definitive pathologic samples. Because ...

The documentation of a normal thyroid gland must be done before any surgical procedure, because the ectopic thyroid tissue within a cyst may be the only functioning thyroid tissue. Removal of this ...

Your daughter's cyst sounds like a thyroglossal duct cyst. This is a defect which is present from birth but does not show itself until later in childhood, most commonly in preschools aged children or ...

THE diagnosis and management of a lump in the neck of a young patient can be a difficult problem. Inadvertent excision of functioning ectopic thyroid tissue in the tongue or subhyoid area when the ...