Pediatric Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma of Follicular Cell Origin: Prognostic Significance of Histologic Subtypes

Differentiated thyroid cancer in children: Heterogeneity of predictive risk factors

“…Contrary to other reports, our data indicate that multifocality, or size, gender do not predict outcome. Multifocality, which is more frequent in paediatric than in adult patients, has been considered a risk factor for recurrence in some but not all studies.…”

Reply: Comparison of Empiric Versus Dosimetry-Guided Radioiodine Therapy: The Devil Is in the Details

“…We agree that patients who have metastatic disease and are younger than 20 y old frequently have an excellent response to RAI treatment, with previous reports showing a 100% 10-y survival rate at both Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and Gustave Roussy (GR) (2,3). In our study, such patients represent 9.9% of the GR cohort (23/231) and 7.4% of the MSKCC cohort (9/121).…”

Prognostic significance of diffuse sclerosing variant papillary thyroid carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Finally, 16 studies with total 732 patients with DSVPTC were included for final analysis ( Fig. 1) (5,6,7,8,9,10,11,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28). The time interval for included studies ranged from 1987 to August 2016.…”