RESUMO
We report here a study of 7 cases of thyroid cancer in childhood. This study that we reinforced by literature review aims to point out the different aspects of this affection: clinical features, the complementary examinations and the management to diagnoses it with certainty and lastly, the different therapeutical attitudes. It is a study of 7 children between 8 and 15 years aged, with a female daminance, without pearicular previous medical histories. Clinically, these children present an euthyroidal goitre, cervical adenopathies with conservation of good general health condition. Scintigraphy showed a cold nodule that was proved to be neoplastic at the anatomo-pathological study, it was papillar or papillo-vesicular carcinoma. The surgical management has at the present time a tendancy to conservative surgery combined or not with a ganglionic curage, followed by a substitute hormonal treatment. In general, the prognosis of this affection is good for the differentiated forms whereas it remains has for bad anaplastic non differentiated forms