Your daughter's cyst sounds like a thyroglossal duct cyst ... in the way of other structures in the neck. Your daughter's thyroid gland developed when she was an embryo, moving down her neck ...

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 and ...

When a thyroglossal duct cyst FNAB is diagnostic for carcinoma, a thyroid ultrasound must be performed in order to rule out the presence of thyroid disease. Likewise, if a non-diagnostic FNAB is ...