Factors affecting the approaches and complications of surgery in childhood papillary thyroid carcinomas.

Background: The aim of the study is to analyse the factors related to permanent surgical complications in children and adolescents with papillary thyroid carcinoma treated by total thyroidectomy with central and bilateral neck dissections.

Methods: Children and adolescents aged ≤18-year-old at presentation with papillary thyroid carcinoma during the years 1988-2010 underwent thyroid and lymph-node surgeries (with a median follow-up of 19.6 years) were analysed for post-surgical complications.

Morphological Changes Induced by Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation in Thyroid Nodules - a Preclinical Investigation.

Recently, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has been increasingly used for the treatment of thyroid nodules. However, immediate morphological changes associated with bipolar devices are poorly shown. To present the results of analysis of gross and microscopic alterations in human thyroid tissue induced by RFA delivered through the application of the original patented device.

Morphological and clinical presentation of papillary thyroid carcinoma in children and adolescents of Belarus: the influence of radiation exposure and the source of irradiation.

Objective: The aims were to analyse the features of papillary thyroid carcinoma in a large cohort of children and adolescents in Belarus and to study the influence of radiation exposure as well as the source of irradiation on the morphological and clinical presentations of tumours.

Design And Patients: The clinical and pathological features of 1086 young patients (age range=4 to 18 inclusive, followed up for ≥18years) with papillary thyroid carcinoma diagnosed during the years 1990 to 2010 were reviewed. The patients were divided into three groups: "external radiation-related", "post-Chernobyl" (internal irradiation-related) and "sporadic".