Thyroglossal cysts and fistulæ

✍ Scribed by Hamilton Bailey

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1925
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 853 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800124716

✦ Synopsis

TIIE gifts of embryology to surgery are manifold. The thyroglossal tract. not the least of these, was certaiuly one of the first to be generally appreciated.

For this paper it was considered ad1 isable t o adhere strictly t o the surgical aspects of thyroglossal cysts and fiitulz, a i d 11'7 cases have been cdected from the records of the Londoii Hospital for this purpose. Whilst in hospital surgical practicc thyroglossal cysts are frequently encountered, the actual incidence in the general population is probably esccedingly small, for iii 86,000 consecutive patients examined in thc Mayo Clinic only 31 cases of thyroglossal cysts were found (Sistrunk). 111 coninion with affections of the thyroid gland, thyroglossal cysts and fistulz are coiiimoiier in women. Thus, of the 117 cases reviewed, 7 5 occurred in females.