Anamnestic and anthropometric features in children and adolescents with different variants of papillary thyroid cancer

Objective — to analyze the anamnestic and anthropometric data of the preoperative examination of patients with different variants of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Materials and methods. A retrospective analysis of the medical records of 106 patients with PTC aged 4 to 18 years operated on at the Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Center for Endocrine Surgery, Transplantation of Endocrine Organs and Tissues of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine was performed. We analyzed family history data (presence of thyroid pathology and cancer in close relatives), history of thyroid pathology, presence of concomitant oncological pathology and types of its treatment, and anthropometric parameters (BMI). Results. When analyzing age characteristics, no statistically significant difference was found in the frequency of variants of PTC in different age groups (p >0.05). We also did not find a statistically significant difference between the study groups regarding family history and the presence of oncology in patients in the past (p >0.05). Among the preoperative characteristics, patients in the MF group, in contrast to the MonoF group, had a significantly higher frequency of autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) (p <0.05). Conclusions. Age, a burdened family history, including the presence of benign thyroid pathology, a history of oncology and BMI are not reliable prognostic factors for the spread of PTC in the thyroid parenchyma. Patients with AIT require careful monitoring for the potential development of PTC, in particular MF and DSV.