Echographical manifestations of thyrolingual cysts

Purposes: Thyrolingual cysts (TLC) – not rare congenital cranio-facial pathology. TLC clinical symptoms usually require the differential diagnostics with different inflammatory processes and another kind of cysts and cystic lesions. Ultrasound (US) misdiagnoses may appears because of TLG various echographical manifestations. Methods & materials: 238 patients from 2 days till 47 years with TLC were undergone standard clinical and ultrasound examination (child:adult=191:47=80,3%:19,7%; male:female=152:86=63,9%:36,1%; nonoperated:recurrenced=175:63=73,5%:26,5%). In 37 patients (15,5%) TLC were in the emptying stage…