title: Thyroid cancer in childhood.
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.
authors: Division of Hematology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors: J B
authors: JB
authors: Gorlin
authors: S E
authors: SE
authors: Sallan
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D000293:Adolescent; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced; D011379:Prognosis; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D013971:Thyrotoxicosis / Q000150:complications