• Graves’ disease (95% of cases) • Thyroiditis – Chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis)—transient – Subacute thyroiditis • Autoimmune neonatal thyrotoxicosis (placental passage of maternal thyroid hormone receptor antibodies)—transient •…
Low risk (<20%) Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia Wilms’ tumour Soft-tissue sarcoma, stage 1 Germ cell tumours (with gonadal preservation and no radiotherapy) Retinoblastoma Brain tumour: surgery only, cranial irradiation <24 Gy Medium…
© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2018Daniel J. Ledbetter and Paul R.V. Johnson (eds.)Endocrine Surgery in Childrenhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54256-9_22 22. Testicular Tumors in Children Yaser El-Hout1 and Darius J. Bägli2 (1) American University of Beirut Medical Center, PO Box: 11-0236, Riad El…
Clinical ∙ Comprehensive medial history and physical examination ∙ Anthropometrics: waist circumference, weight, height ∙ Systolic and diastolic blood pressure ∙ Tanner stage (≥4) ∙ Evaluation by pediatric psychologist or…
Type 1 (absolute insulin deficiency) A. Autoimmune B. Idiopathic Type 2 (insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency) Genetic disorders of insulin secretion A. Monogenic diabetes B. Mitochondrial diabetes Disorders of…
Tumour Symptoms Insulinoma Confusion, sweating, weakness, unconsciousness, relief of symptoms with eating Gastrinoma Peptic ulceration and diarrea (Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, or diarrea alone Glucagonoma Weight loss, diabetes mellitus, diarrea, necrolytic migratory…
83% papillary 60% papillary 23% follicular variant of papillary 10% follicular thyroid cancer 5% medullary 2% other From Ref. [5], with permission Papillary Thyroid Cancer Pathologic features of papillary thyroid…
Fig. 3.1 Pathway for pediatric thyroid nodules. *Purely cystic lesions, i.e., no solid component, are not managed using this guideline. Surgical consultation may be considered. Recommend external expert review if atypia…
24125 Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Older Patients Sergio Giralt INTRODUCTION In 1974, Thomas et al. published their seminal paper of the use of high-dose chemoradiotherapy followed by the infusion of…
31332 Palliation of Nonpain Symptoms Katherine Wang and Emily Chai INTRODUCTION A geriatric patient with cancer may experience symptoms—attributable to malignancy itself or to side effects of treatment—that significantly impact…
