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Thyroid Cancer in the Pediatric Population.

Vera A Paulson, Erin R Rudzinski, Douglas S Hawkins

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Review in Genes, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
110citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
16.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

110 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 231 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Guideline
  3. Pathogenesis of Thyroid Cancer with Particular Emphasis on the Role of AnoikisJournal of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology · 2026
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  6. Evolving trends in pediatric thyroid nodules and cancer management.Annals of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism · 2026
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  14. Thyroid cancer: experience at a state pediatric referral center.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2026
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  19. Study of theDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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50 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vera A PaulsonDept. of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 NE Pacific St, Box 357110, Seattle, WA 98105, USA. vpauls@uw.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4157-2534
Erin R RudzinskiDept. of Laboratories, Seattle Children's Hospital, OC.8.720; 4800 Sandpoint Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA. erin.rudzinski@seattlechildrens.org.
Douglas S HawkinsUniversity of Washington Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Seattle Children's Hospital, MB.8.501, Seattle, WA 98105, USA. doug.hawkins@seattlechildrens.org.ORCID 0000-0003-3602-1375
Seattle Children's Hospital · USUniversity of Washington Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thyroid cancer is rare in the pediatric population, but thyroid carcinomas occurring in children carry a unique set of clinical, pathologic, and molecular characteristics. In comparison to adults, children more often present with aggressive, advanced stage disease. This is at least in part due to the underlying biologic and molecular differences between pediatric and adult thyroid cancer. Specifically, papillary thyroid carcinoma (which accounts for approximately 90% of pediatric thyroid cancer) has a high rate of gene fusions which influence the histologic subtypes encountered in pediatric thyroid tumors, are associated with more extensive extrathyroidal disease, and offer unique options for targeted medical therapies. Differences are also seen in pediatric follicular thyroid cancer, although there are few studies of non-papillary pediatric thyroid tumors published in the literature due to their rarity, and in medullary carcinoma, which is most frequently diagnosed in the pediatric population in the setting of prophylactic thyroidectomies for known multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes. The overall shift in the spectrum of histotypes and underlying molecular alterations common in pediatric thyroid cancer is important to recognize as it may directly influence diagnostic test selection and therapeutic recommendations.

Indexed as

AdolescentChildGenetic TestingHumansThyroid Neoplasmsgene rearrangementsmolecular testingpediatric thyroid cancertargeted cancer therapy

Identifiers

PMID31540418
PMCPMC6771006
OpenAlexW2974058088

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