ea0031p373 | Thyroid | SFEBES2013
Ervine Evelyn
, Wallace Ian
, Taghavi Kiarash
, Morreau Philip
Thyroid cancer has an annual incidence of 0.25 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 ...