Endocrine Abstracts

The aims of this study are to assess the clinical characteristics of papillary and follicular thyroid cancer in young patients. We performed a retrospective analysis of 116 patient aged 20 years who underwent thyroidectomy and a mean follow-up of 11.1±0.6 years. There were 28 (24.1%) patients were classified into the residual cancer or relapse groups. Two of the 28 patients died of thyroid cancer. Thirteen patients who showed relapsed underwent 131I whole body scan; six o...