Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid cancer in patients with hyperthyroidism is considered to be a rare event and its course seems to be more aggressive in patients with Graves’ disease. The coexistence of medullary thyroid cancer and hyperthyroidism is very rare and there are only 14 cases reported in the literature.The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the clinical and histological characteristics and the evolution of thyroid cancer in patients with different types...

Introduction Thyroid cancer (TC) is rare in childhood. The aim of the present study was to describe the tumoral characteristics of children and adolescents with TC and to investigate the frequency of microcarcinomas in that population.Methods We studied the medical records of 101 children and adolescents (≤ 21 years-old) who were diagnosed with TC between January 1977 and December 2011 in Theagenio Cancer Hospital. The following characteristics wer...