Surgery
Thyroglossal Fistula:
Also called the median fistula of the neck, situated below the hyoid bone.
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The fistulas opening moves up on protrusion of the tongue.
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Characteristic feature is the hooding of the skin above the opening, i.e. a crescentic fold of skin overlying the fistulas opening.
Treatment:
Complete excision of the fistulas tract.
Clinical Medicine
Structures which move up with deglutition:
- Thyroid swellings
- Subhyoid bursitis.
- Pretracheal and prelaryngeal lymph nodes.
- Thyroglossal cyst.
