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Integrating Molecular Testing in the Diagnosis and Management of Children with Thyroid Lesions.
Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society - 1 Jan 2000
Ballester Leomar Y, Sarabia Stephen F, Sayeed Hadi, Patel Nimesh, Baalwa Joshua, Athanassaki Ioanna, Hernandez Jose A, Fang Erica, Quintanilla Norma M, Roy Angshumoy, López-Terrada Dolores H
Abstract excerpt
Thyroid nodules occur in 1-2% of children, and identifying which nodules are malignant is often challenging. Cytologic evaluation facilitates the diagnosis of thyroid lesions (TLs), but in 10-40% of cases the interpretation is indeterminate. Patients with indeterminate diagnoses are often treated with hemithyroidectomy followed by completion thyroidectomy, if cancer is found in the initial specimen. Exposing...
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