1. Presented by Fred Askin, M.D. and prepared by Carol Allan, M.D.

The patient is a 61-year-old woman with a pretracheal cyst near the right lobe of the thyroid. Fine needle aspiration yielded clear fluid, acellular except for scattered red blood cells.

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