title: Cerebellar metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma in a pediatric patient with complex congenital heart disease.
abstract: This case describes the first pediatric case of metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) to the cerebellum as the presenting sign of cancer in a child with CHARGE syndrome and complex congenital heart disease. Diagnostic radiation exposure as a strong risk factor for PTC is discussed.
authors: Critical Care Medicine, National Insitutes of Health, Room 2C145, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. kenneth.remy@nih.gov
authors: Kenneth E
authors: KE
authors: Remy
authors: Robert W
authors: RW
authors: Elder
authors: Nadejda M
authors: NM
authors: Tsankova
authors: Rushika M
authors: RM
authors: Conroy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D058747:CHARGE Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D000077273:Thyroid Cancer, Papillary; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary