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CARCINOMA OF THE THYROID GLAND IN CHILDHOOD ITS RELATION TO RADIOTHERAPY
Author(s) -
Howard Russell
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1960.tb03859.x
Subject(s) - medicine , thyroid , carcinoma , radiation therapy , malignancy , etiology , thyroid carcinoma , pathology , oncology
Summary1 Attention is drawn to the relationship of irradiation of the thyroid gland in infancy and childhood to the subsequent development of carcinoma in this gland. 2 Supplemental information is furnished concerning two of the children suffering from carcinoma of the thyroid gland whose case histories were reported by Webster and Howard in this journal in 1954. It is suggested that irradiation is likely to have been implicated in their aetiology. 3 Record is made of a further case of carcinoma of the thyroid gland in childhood in whom irradiation of the neck preceded the development of malignancy.