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.

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 ...

Thyroglossal duct cysts can be found in several different locations, although intra-thyroid presentations are rare. We present the case of an 11-year-old patient with a visible neck mass on the ...