A 47-year-old woman was admitted to INCan with a 7-year history of a slow-growing tumor on the anterior part of the neck accompanied by dysphagia. Physical examination revealed a 6 x 5 cm mass on ...

The commonest ways a thyroglossal cyst may show itself are: as a small soft round lump in the front of the neck a sore, red, swollen lump, if it becomes infected a small opening in the skin near ...

A thyroglossal duct cyst also has the potential to undergo malignant transformation in less than 1% of cases, though this process is more likely to present in adulthood. Reactive lymphadenopathy is ...

When a diagnosis of a thyroglossal cyst carcinoma is made, an evaluation of the thyroid gland during surgery must be done as well as a careful examination to identify suspicious lymph nodes; neck ...