Papillary Carcinoma Thyroglossal Cyst: A Rare Presentation in an 11-Year-Old Girl Child

Thyroglossal cyst is the most common congenital neck anomaly in children with equal sex incidence, but papillary carcinoma of the thyroglossal cyst in children is rare with only 10 cases reported so far. Even in adults, the incidence of malignancy in the thyroglossal cyst is only 1%. Most cases are...

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Autores principales: Pandey, Kalyan, Das, Prafulla Kumar, Satpathy, Bharat Bhusan, Devi, Padmalaya, Mohanty, Swodeep, Goutam, Kunal, Samantara, Subrat, Patil, Nilesh B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8637994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34912150
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_235_20
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Sumario:Thyroglossal cyst is the most common congenital neck anomaly in children with equal sex incidence, but papillary carcinoma of the thyroglossal cyst in children is rare with only 10 cases reported so far. Even in adults, the incidence of malignancy in the thyroglossal cyst is only 1%. Most cases are diagnosed following surgery on histopathological examination; there is no consensus on the management owing to this rarity and indolent but unpredictable behavior of thyroid cancers. Here, we present one such rare case.

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