Thyroid carcinoma in children.

Abstract

hirteen children with thyroid carcinoma weretreated from 1985 to 1994. Their ages ranged from 7 to16 years old. Male 3 and female 10. All patients didn'tfeel any discomfortable. Clinical complaints were neckmasses. The patients had been treated improperly be-fore radical operation except one case. Metastaeis tothe celvical lymph nodes lungs and bone were found in10, 3, 1 cases ies f)ectlvely on histologlcal examina-tion: 10 cases with papillary carcinoma and 3 with follicular carcinomaThe operation includes a lobectomy of the affectedside plus the isthmusecromy and the subtotal lobecto-my of the opposite The neck dissectal lobecto-sary when cervical lymph modes metastasis'is foundThe features of thyroid carcinoma in children, reasonof higher mlsdiagnose rate and the treatment are dis-'cussed.