[Cryptogenic and iatrogenic papillary thyroid carcinoma in children and adolescences: comparative study].

The clinico-morphological investigations of 117 children and adolescences with papillary thyroid carcinoma, surgically treated in the Republic Centre for Thyroid Tumors, Minsk, Belarus in 1995-2009 and dutifully followed-up have been studied. Ninety -five observations of all cases were sporadic, but 22 patients had been treated earlier from other neoplasm (Hodgkin's diseases, malignant lymphoma, leukemia, sarcoma, medulloblastoma). Epidemiologic, clinical and pathological peculiarities of thyroid carcinoma in Belarus were analyzed. A number of features distinguished "cryptogenic" and "iatrogenic" papillary thyroid carcinoma in children and adolescents were found out.