Abstract

ESTRADA SARMIENTO, Manuel. Quistes y fístulas del conducto tirogloso: Nuestra experiencia. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 1996, vol.35, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

A observational retrospective, and descriptive investigation of 65 patients with clinical and histology-cal diagnosis of cysts and/or fistulas of the thyroglossal duct was carried out to know their behaviour in our enviroment during the period 1983-1993. 43 of the 65 patients were males (66,1 %) and 22 females. 20 % of them were under 10 years old. Nine patients (13,8 %) had undergone surgery before. Cervical tumour was found in 54 patients and fistula in 6. The Sistrunk's surgical technique was used in 62 patients (95,4 %), where as in the rest it was used the simple exeresis of the cyst. Operative mortality was null. Three patients (4,6 %) presented incision sepsis. The minimun follow-up lasted one year. Two patients relapsed and were operated on again 10 months later. This affection is relatively frequent with predominance in the first decades of life. An adequate therapeutics leads to the resolution of it with no mortality

Keywords : THYROGLOSSAL CYST; FISTULA; THYROID GLAND; TONGUE.