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Follicular cell carcinoma of the thyroid in a child after bone marrow transplantation for acute lymphoblastic
1Clinica Pediatrica dell'Università di Milano, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy.
Acta Haematologica
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Follicular cell carcinoma (FCC) of the thyroid is rarely found during childhood. We report a 12 1/2-year-old girl with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, who developed rapidly growing FCC of the thyroid, 3 years after bone marrow transplantation. The role of chemotherapy in the induction of such secondary tumors after transplantation is discussed, and a proposal for the approach to these patients is suggested.