TWO PATIENTS WITH THYROID CARCINOMA IN CHILDHOOD

Abstract

Two patients with thyroid carcinoma in childhood were experienced in the last two decades. These cases represeted 0.36% of 553 cases of thyroid malignant tumor operated on at the department. One patient was a 9-year-old boy, having diffuse tumors in the bilateral thyroid glands, cervical lymphnode metastasis, and bilateral multiple lung metastasis. Total thyroidectomy and tracheostomy were performed. The pathological diagnosis was papillary carcinoma. Another patient was a 14-year-old girl, having a 6cm tumor in the left lobe of thyroid gland. Left thyroidectomy was performed. The pathological diagnosis was follicular carcinoma.