Key Clinical Message
Careful airway management in the perioperative period contributed to the
prevention of the occurrence of respiratory complications.
1 INTRODUCTION
Thyroglossal duct cysts arise from remnants of the embryonic
thyroglossal duct, and they commonly develop in the median cervix. The
basic treatment is to resect the cyst along with the fistulous
tract.1 Herein, we report perioperative management of
a pediatric patient with thyroglossal duct on the dorsum of the tongue
for thyroglossal duct cystectomy that was predicted to cause dyspnea in
the perioperative stage.
Written consent was obtained from the patient’s parents for this report.