Papillary thyroid cancer: a pediatric perspective

TK Flannery, JL Kirkland, KC Copeland… - …, 1996 - publications.aap.org
A less-invasive approach to the evaluation of papillary carcinoma in children and
adolescents recently has been proposed, based on reports of the accuracy and reliability of
fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in this population. 1-4 Such confidence may be ill-
founded, as the following clinical histories will illustrate. Functioning nodules, Hashimoto's
thyroiditis (HT), and goiter-associated lymphadenopathy are unusual but significant
presentations of papillary carcinoma in children and young adults, likely to be missed by the …
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