Endocrine Abstracts

Paediatric thyroid cancer is rare but belongs to the most frequent malignancies in children and its incidence increases. The difference from adult disease subsists in good curability despite of quicker proliferation and earlier development of metastases. Influence of previous radioactivity exposure in the pathogenesis has been proven.For the optimal uptake of radioiodine 131I in the post-operative thyroid remnants it’s necessary to achiev...

A basic tool of the thyroidal cancer treatment is the total thyroidectomy. Immediately after the thyroidectomy, the patients receive a thyroxin. In the case of positive histology after lobectomy, we first indicate the total thyroidectomy. If the tumor is larger than 1 cm or if is a multifocal one, we indicate the ablation of the remnant with I131.Usually, the differentiated thyroid cancer is non-aggressive and we proceed with a standard way of...