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ReviewJournal of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology2013

Pediatric thyroid disease: when is surgery necessary, and who should be operating on our children?

Christopher Breuer, Charles Tuggle, Daniel Solomon, Julie Ann Sosa

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Review in Journal of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Pediatric Graves' Disease: Surgical Interventions in a Single Institution - A Comprehensive Case Series.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024
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  10. Graves' Disease in Children: An Update.Clinical medicine insights. Endocrinology and diabetes · 2023
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  15. Intraoperative Ultrasonographic Assessment of Vocal Cord motion under sedation, following paediatric thyroidectomy in the Era of COVID-19: A double-blinded preliminary study.Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery · 2021
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  19. Controversies in the management of Graves' disease in children.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher BreuerDepartment of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
Charles Tuggle
Daniel Solomon
Julie Ann Sosa
Yale University · USDuke University · USThe Ohio State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surgical diseases of the thyroid in the pediatric population represent a diverse set of both benign and malignant conditions. Overall, incidence is rare. Benign conditions include Graves' disease, toxic adenomas, congenital hyperthyroidism, and goiter. Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) and medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), with its related familial cancer syndromes, are the most common malignancies. Near-total or total thyroidectomy is the appropriate surgery for thyroid cancer, with/out central lymph node dissection. Emerging practice guidelines from professional societies are helpful, although they generally have not addressed surgical management of the pediatric patient. Thyroidectomy in children is associated with a higher rate of complications, such as recurrent laryngeal nerve injury and hypoparathyroidism, as compared to the surgery in adults. Therefore, it is essential that pediatric thyroidectomy be performed by high-volume thyroid surgeons, regardless of specialty. Case volume to support surgical expertise usually must be borrowed from the adult experience, given the relative paucity of pediatric thyroidectomies at an institutional level. These surgeons should work as part of a multidisciplinary team that includes pediatric endocrinologists and anesthesiologists, pediatricians, nuclear medicine physicians, and pathologists to afford children the best clinical outcomes.

Indexed as

General SurgeryThyroidectomyAdultChildHumansThyroid DiseasesTime FactorsWorkforce

Identifiers

PMID23149389
PMCPMC3608013
OpenAlexW2088780716

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