Papillary thyroid carcinoma in children: prevalence, morphology, molecular and cytogenetic characteristics, and prognostic determinants
Abstract Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) stands as the most frequently encountered endocrine malignancy in children and adolescents. A notable clinical feature of pediatric PTC is that while young patients often present with advanced disease – including lymph node involvement and distant metastases – long-term surviv...