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 ...

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.

Hence, a total thyroidectomy was performed. The histologic report was papillary carcinoma of the thyroglossal duct cyst with invasion to the cyst wall and papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland ...