ESPE Abstracts

Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is the most common neonatal endocrine disorder and one of the most common preventable cause of intellectual disability in the world. CH may be due to developmental or functional thyroid defects (primary or peripheral CH) or be hypothalamo-pituitary in origin (central CH). In most cases, primary CH is caused by a developmental malformation of the gland (thyroid dysgenesis, TD) or by a defect in thyroid hormones synthesis (dyshormonogenesis, DH). T...

There are inherent challenges in developing guidelines that incorporate practice variations reflecting geographic differences in the incidence of pediatric thyroid cancer, variable access to health care, differing cultural norms, and disparate local and regional resources across the breadth of our global pediatric thyroid community. Over the last decade, multiple pediatric guidelines on the evaluation and management of thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer have bee...

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