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Thyroid cancer in childhood
1Division of Hematology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
The incidence, clinical presentation, and types of thyroid cancers presenting in childhood are reviewed. The role of antecedent radiation in papillary and follicular thyroid cancers and genetics of medullary thyroid carcinoma are discussed. Unique aspects of therapy and prognosis for the pediatric patient with thyroid carcinoma are addressed as well as a diagnostic approach to the child who presents with a neck mass.