title: [Thyroglossal cysts and fistulas].
abstract: We know that 2% of neck tumors are thyroglossal duct cysts. A retrospective review was carried out of 33 patients with thyroglossal duct remnants (22 cysts and 11 fistulas) who had undergone surgery at our ENT department from 1974 to 1979. Follow-up data were available from 29 patients and exceeded 1 year in every case. Attention was directed to the preoperative history of these lesions, their clinical presentation, anatomopathological and diagnostic findings, the nature of surgery performed, the complications of surgery, and the incidence of recurrence. In literature, surgery should be radical (Sistrunk) in order to avoid recurrence. At our ENT department surgery is performed following a scheme after which the extension of the operation varies to the preoperative findings. We found no recurrences in the follow-up group, neither in the group that received a radical operation (8), nor in the group that received a non-radical operation (21).
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D013955:Thyroglossal Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Thyreoglossuscysten en - fistels.