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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Invasive thyroglossal duct cyst papillary carcinoma: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Invasive thyroglossal duct cyst papillary carcinoma a case report Leila Aghaghazvini1 Habib Mazaher1 Hashem Sharifian1 Shirin Aghaghazvini1 and Majid Assadi 2 Address department of Radiology Amiralam Hospital Tehran University of Medical Science Tehran Iran and department of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology The Persian Gulf Biomedical Research Institute Busheher University of Medical Sciences Bushehr Iran Email Leila Aghaghazvini - la_ghazvini@ Habib Mazaher-hamazaher@ Hashem Sharifian - h_sharifian_md@ Shirin Aghaghazvini - shirin_lmsh@ Majid Assadi - assadipoya@ Corresponding author Published I December 2009 Received 7 September 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 9308 doi 1752-1947-3-9308 Accepted 1 December 2009 This article is available from http content 3 I 9308 2009 Aghaghazvini et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction A thyroglossal duct cyst is the most common congenital anomaly of the thyroid gland and midline masses in childhood 70 abnormality in childhood 7 in adult . Carcinomas arising from a thyroglossal duct cyst are rare only 1 of thyroglossal duct cyst cases and characterized by relatively non-aggressive behavior and rare lymphatic spread. They are also diagnosed mostly during the third and fourth decades of life. About 85 to 92 of all thyroglossal duct cyst carcinomas are papillary carcinomas. Case presentation We present the case of a 44-year-old Iranian woman with Cacausian ethnicity with a painless anterior neck mass that appeared gradually over three months. She had a history of frequent painful swelling of the .