ECE2017 Eposter Presentations: Thyroid Thyroid (non-cancer) (260 abstracts)
Papillary thyroid carcinoma in children: report of 15 cases
Intidhar Elbez , Nesrine Cheikhrouhou , Kaouthar Limam , Aida Mhiri , Ihsen Slim , Bechir Ltaeif & Med Faouzi Ben Slimene
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Salah Azaiez Institute, Tunis, Tunisia.
Papillary thyroid carcinoma is rare in young patients and have a good prognosis, although it is often diagnosed at the stage of lung metastases. Our multicenter study included 15 children aged between 5 and 18 years with female predominance, followed for differentiated thyroid cancer with lung metastases. All these patients underwent a whole body scan with I-131, serum thyroglobulin, chest radiography and/or cervico-thoracic CT. Scintigraphy had shown pulmonary miliary among all patients. Iodine treatment was successful in all patients, which proves the high sensitivity of these metastases to iodine treatment. The differentiated thyroid cancer is characterized by local aggressiveness and a high frequency of distant metastases. Prognosis does not seem to be influenced by histology alone, but by its association with other prognostic factors: age, metastases and surgery.
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