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Total Thyroidectomy as Appropriate Treatment for Papillary Carcinoma in a Thyroglossal Duct Cyst
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2002;128:463.
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Drs Pribitkin and Friedman present a well-documented review of the embryology
concerning TGDRs and the statistics associated with TGDCa. This represents
a long-standing controversy that can be directly related to continuing disagreement
over the management of thyroid papillary carcinoma. The dilemma relates to
performing only an adequate local excision of the primary tumor site with
a Sistrunk procedure, or, alternatively, additionally performing a total thyroidectomy
for improving future patient management and avoiding recurrent disease.
Certain facts warrant repeating because they affect the course of treatment.
Benign cysts occurring in TGDRs are the most common of midline childhood masses,
and there is a 0.7% to 1.0% incidence of carcinoma, with 80% of these being
papillary or mixed papillary–follicular type. These carcinomas are quite
uncommon in chiuldren; the mean age of occurrence is 40 years. Unless there
is a diagnostic FNA biopsy performed preoperatively, the diagnosis is usually
made on frozen section . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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