... [ 55 ]. Radiopharmaceuticals are a group of radioactive pharmaceutical drugs used for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The two radiopharmaceuticals currently used in pediatric cancer therapy include 131-iodine to treat differentiated thyroid cancer and 131 I-MIBG to treat neuroblastoma...

... cancer Pediatrics Children Ultrasonography Thyroid cancer is the most common pediatric endocrine cancer [ 1 ]. When a child presents with a thyroid nodule, that nodule is at least 2–4 times more likely to be malignant compared to that in an adult [ 2‒7 ]. Recent malignancy rate estimates...

...Brittany K. Wise-Oringer; Marina Goldis; Molly O. Regelmann; Michelle Klein; Josef Machac; Henrietta Kotlus Rosenberg; Robert Rapaport Background: Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is an uncommon pediatric disease with an excellent prognosis. In follow-up surveillance, neck ultrasound (US), basal...

...Sophie Turpin; Raymond Lambert; Cheri Deal Background: Little objective pediatric data exist to guide the optimal time needed to achieve thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels ≥30 μIU/mL prior to performing 131 I or 123 I whole-body scan (WBS) imaging in children with thyroid cancer in the post...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Hashimoto thyroiditis Thyroid cancer Thyroid nodule Childhood A total of 300 cases under the age of 18 years...

... thyroid cancer, insular carcinoma [ 38 ]. Taken together, these data suggest that mutations at residue 633 in TSHR cause more pronounced proliferation than the others, leading to their being recognized in the pediatric age group and being a higher risk factor for malignancy in adulthood...

... ablation Recombinant human TSH Children Thyroid cancer Recombinant human TSH (rhTSH) has been widely used for the preparation of adult patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma for ablation of thyroid remnants with 131 I [ 1,2,3 ]. Data regarding its use in children and adolescents...

... according to cytopathology in 35 children with thyroid nodules. * Criteria: solid lesion; hypoechogenicity; central vascularization; irregular borders (absence of halo); microcalcifications and a high anteroposterior to transverse ratio. a The follicular variant of papillary thyroid cancer was described...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Thyroid cancer Follicular T3 in thyroid cancer Hormone Res. 8: 219-223 (1977) Triiodothyronine-Producing Metastatic Follicular Thyroid...

... to in the content or advertisements. Thyroid ultrastructure Nucleolar segregation Nodular goiters Familiar goiters Thyroid cancer Hormones 2: 184-192 (1971) The Phenomenon of Nucleolar Segregation in Some Lesions of the Thyroid Cell M aya Simionescu Institute of Endocrinology, Bucharest Abstract. Study...

...Martin Schlumberger; Isabelle Borget; Gérard De Pouvourville; Furio Pacini Recombinant human thyroid-stimulating hormone (rhTSH) is used in thyroid cancer patients to prepare for postoperative administration of 3.7 GBq of radioiodine ( 131 I) and to facilitate the determination of serum...

... cancer Children In children, most thyroid carcinomas are derived from follicular cells [ 1,2,3 ]. Medullary thyroid carcinomas derived from parafollicular cells (or C cells) are rare and beyond the scope of this review. Thyroid cancer is a rare disease in children, accounting for 1.5 to 3...

...Alexandra Chrisoulidou; Kalliopi Pazaitou-Panayiotou; Nikolaos Flaris; Apostolos Drimonitis; Iosifina Giavroglou; Eudoxia Ginikopoulou; Iraklis Vainas Objective: The case of a 60-year-old male patient with follicular thyroid cancer who developed a pituitary mass proved to be a metastasis from...

...Raimondo Gabriele; Claudio Letizia; Mario Borghese; Giorgio De To ma; Massimiliano Celi; Luciano Izzo; Antonio Cavallaro Objective: The coexistence of hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer is considered a rare event. With the aim of assessing the clinical relevance of this association, we have...

... uptake of 99m Tc-pertechnetate. PD is able to give information about the Doppler signal amplitude, whereas CD generally displays an estimate of the mean Doppler frequency shift [ 7, 8 ]. Ultrasound Color Doppler Power Doppler Thyroid Thyroid diseases Thyroid nodules Thyroid cancer...