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 ...

It's like I've got an Adam's apple that keeps getting bigger.' Unbeknownst to me, I'd had a thyroglossal duct cyst." According to the Cleveland Clinic, people are born with thyroglossal duct cysts ...

Hence, a total thyroidectomy was performed. The histologic report was papillary carcinoma of the thyroglossal duct cyst with invasion to the cyst wall and papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland ...