ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

3 Thyroid

Pediatric thyroid cancer

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3.11 DICER1 mutations are frequent in adolescent-onset papillary thyroid carcinoma

JD Wasserman , N Sabbaghian , S Fahiminiya , R Chami , O Mete , M Acker , MK Wu , A Shlien , L de Kock , WD Foulkes

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2018;103:2009-2015Thyroid cancer in children and adolescents has a higher rate of regional and distant metastases, and recurrence rate than in adults. However, little is known about the molecular origin of thyroid carcinoma in children. DICER1 encodes for an endoribonuclease responsible for processing RNA into s...
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3.12 Thyroid nodules in pediatric patients: sonographic characteristics and likelihood of cancer

DM Richman , CB Benson , PM Doubilet , HE Peters , SA Huang , E Asch , AJ Wassner , JR Smith , CE Cherella , MC Frates

To read the full abstract: Radiology 2018:171170Current American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines recommend the application of adult ultrasound criteria to classify thyroid nodules in children and adolescents1. However, few studies have evaluated the sonographic and demographic features that could predict malignancy in a large cohort of young patients with thyroid nodules.</p...
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