Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid cancer has an annual incidence of 0.2–5 per million children representing 3% of all childhood tumours. We describe the presentation, histopathology and treatment of four patients in a regional paediatric surgical and endocrine unit over the past 15 years.Three of four cases are female with 1 male. Age of diagnosis ranged from 6 to 15 years. All had an elevated thyroglobulin at presentation with normal thyroid function tests. Three underwent ...