Imaging of pediatric thyroid tumors: A COG Diagnostic Imaging Committee/SPR Oncology Committee White Paper

Judy H Squires; Claudia Martinez-Rios; James C Davis; Kelly R Dietz; Monica S Epelman; Hollie A Lai; Jennifer E Lim-Dunham; Janice D McDaniel; Joyce C Mhlanga; Neeta Pandit-Taskar; Marguerite T Parisi; Andrew T Trout; Elizabeth K Weidman; Adina L Alazraki

doi:10.1002/pbc.29957

Imaging of pediatric thyroid tumors: A COG Diagnostic Imaging Committee/SPR Oncology Committee White Paper

Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2023 Jun;70 Suppl 4(Suppl 4):e29957. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29957. Epub 2022 Sep 27.

Authors

Judy H Squires^{1

2}, Claudia Martinez-Rios^{3

4}, James C Davis^{5

6}, Kelly R Dietz⁷, Monica S Epelman⁸, Hollie A Lai⁹, Jennifer E Lim-Dunham¹⁰, Janice D McDaniel^{11

12}, Joyce C Mhlanga¹³, Neeta Pandit-Taskar^{14

15}, Marguerite T Parisi¹⁶, Andrew T Trout^{17

18

19}, Elizabeth K Weidman²⁰, Adina L Alazraki^{21

22}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Radiology, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Medical Imaging, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁶ Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁷ Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
⁸ Department of Radiology, Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA.
⁹ CHOC-Children's Health Orange County, Orange, California, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Radiology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA.
¹¹ Department of Radiology, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio, USA.
¹² Department of Radiology, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio, USA.
¹³ Division of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging and Therapy Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, USA.
¹⁶ Departments of Radiology and Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
²⁰ Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine - New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, New York, USA.
²¹ Department of Radiology, Division of Pediatric Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
²² Department of Radiology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

Pediatric thyroid cancer is rare in children; however, incidence is increasing. Papillary thyroid cancer and follicular thyroid cancer are the most common subtypes, comprising about 90% and 10% of cases, respectively. This paper provides consensus imaging recommendations for evaluation of pediatric patients with thyroid cancer at diagnosis and during follow-up.

Keywords: pediatric; thyroid cancer; thyroid tumor.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adenocarcinoma, Follicular* / diagnostic imaging
Child
Humans
Incidence
Surface Plasmon Resonance
Thyroid Cancer, Papillary
Thyroid Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Thyroid Neoplasms* / epidemiology

Grants and funding

U10 CA180886/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States