Open AccessSurgical treatment of pediatric and adolescent papillary thyroid cancer: a retrospective study of 54 patients in a single center
Author(s) -
Yanjun Su,
Shaohao Cheng,
Chang Diao,
Yunhai Ma,
Jun Qian,
Ruochuan Cheng
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
jornal de pediatria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1678-4782
pISSN - 0021-7557
DOI - 10.1016/j.jped.2021.11.011
Subject(s) - medicine , dissection (medical) , retrospective cohort study , papillary thyroid cancer , lymph , thyroid , lymph node , single center , thyroid cancer , neck dissection , metastasis , lymph node metastasis , thyroidectomy , cancer , surgery , general surgery , pathology
In 2015, American Thyroid Association (ATA) issued the first version of Management Guidelines for Children with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the ATA pediatric guidelines recommended surgical approach for the patient can be applied to surgical treatment of pediatric PTC in China.