Carcinoma within the thyroglossal duct (TGDCa ... and provides diagnostic and therapeutic considerations in TGDCa in children. Twenty one cases of TGDCa have been reported, 12 of them in females.

Your daughter's cyst sounds like a thyroglossal duct cyst ... most commonly in preschools aged children or during mid adolescence, although it can appear at any age. It is not malignant (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.