A thyroglossal duct cyst is a growth that occurs in the womb. Learn about the causes, symptoms, ... However, if the mass is large enough, it may block your airways.

A thyroglossal duct cyst happens when your thyroid, a large gland in your neck that produces hormones, leaves behind extra cells while it’s forming during your development in the womb. These ...

This mass is a cyst within the vestigial thyroglossal duct and the most common congenital neck mass that occurs in 7% of the population. The thyroglossal duct extends from the foramen cecum at the ...

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 differential diagnosis for a midline neck mass includes fibromas, lymphangiomas, small salivary gland tumors, thyroglossal duct cysts, midline branchial cyst and epidermal inclusion cysts.

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 ...

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 ...

Read at the Annual Meeting of the New England Surgical Society at Scarboro, Maine, September 12, 1931. Jarvis — Surgeon, Hartford, Mt. Sinai and City Hospitals, Hartford. For record and address ...

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; ...