Abstract

VERDECIA CANIZARES, Caridad  and  PORTUGUES DIAZ, Andrés. Differentiated thyroid carcinoma after irradiation: apropos of a case. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2007, vol.79, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3119.

The differentiated thyroid carcinoma is a rare disease in children. In patients at pediatric ages and among  adolescents, it has a good prognosis and a high survival rate. The case of a patient diagnosed in our hospital that received irradiation of the head and neck due to a non-Hodgkin lymphoma of right cervical localization 6 years before, was presented. A nodule in the right lobe of the thyroid was detected in the follow-up. The diagnosis of thyroid papillary carcinoma was made by biopsy. As the result of the treatment (surgery and radioiodine) was good, it was concluded that the early diagnosis and the current treatment allowed a complete remission in the differentiated thyroid carcinoma.

Keywords : Thryoid papillary carcinoma; radiotherapy; surgery radioiodine.

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