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 ...

A trend towards robotic scarless surgery using remote site incisions has developed in head and neck surgery for better cosmetic outcomes. We have carried out robot-assisted excision of thyroglossal ...

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 ...

At the 40th week of gestation, a healthy baby was delivered without complications. In the second month postpartum, the woman was eligible for a follow-up thyroidectomy with lymphadenectomy ...

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 ...

CHENNAI: In one of the rarest instances, doctors in Chennai successfully treated a six-month-old baby, who was born with a thyroglossal cyst on the tongue. A thyroglossal duct cyst is a mass or lump ...

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 ...

Objective: To present a report series of five cases, compare their clinical evolution, and establish the appropriate treatment. Methods: A retrospective study was performed with the clinical records ...

Hi - was refferred to an ENT guy today and he has diagnosed a "midline nodule" - lump that I have in my throat as a Thyroglossal duct cyst, and the recommendation is surgery to remove it. He is ...