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PEREZ GESEN, Cecilia. Therapeutic approach to some thyroid diseases in pediatrics. Rev Cubana Endocrinol [online]. 2012, vol.23, n.3, pp. 281-290. ISSN 1561-2953.

Thyroid diseases hold an important place because of their frequency and variety in the endocrine diseases affecting the child and the adolescent. Although both can suffer the same thyroid diseases as the adults, there are specific illnesses of the age, the diagnosis and treatment of which may prevent the devastating and irreversible effects that they can bring. For the purpose of updating information and reaching a consensus, this paper presented the therapeutic approach to some thyroid diseases of the childhood by order of importance and frequency, such as the thyroid nodule, the goiter and the hyperthyroidism.

Palabras clave : thyroid nodule; goiter; hyperthyroidism.

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