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Thyroglossal duct cyst or ectopic thyroid gland?
A J Holland1, A L Sparnon, G W LeQuesne
1Department of Paediatric Surgery, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, Australia.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
We report a 16-year-old boy with an anterior midline neck mass clinically diagnosed as a thyroglossal duct cyst. An ultrasound scan performed prior to surgery suggested a normally located thyroid gland. Following surgical excision of the presumed thyroglossal duct cyst the patient became hypothyroid. A radioisotope scan confirmed no active thyroid tissue. A pitfall in the ultrasonographic identification of the thyroid gland is discussed.