Thyroid carcinoma in the United Arab Emirates: perspectives and experience of a tertiary care hospital
| Autor: | Nabil Al-Zaher, Suhail Al-Salam, Hassan El Teraifi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty endocrine system Adolescent endocrine system diseases United Arab Emirates lcsh:RC254-282 Thyroid carcinoma Young Adult Age Distribution Sex Factors Follicular phase Humans Medicine Thyroid Neoplasms Young adult Risk factor Child Aged Retrospective Studies Gynecology business.industry lcsh:RC633-647.5 Incidence (epidemiology) Medical record Age Factors Retrospective cohort study Hematology General Medicine lcsh:Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs Middle Aged Prognosis medicine.disease lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens Hospitals Oncology Medullary carcinoma Female business |
| Zdroj: | Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 14-21 (2008) |
| ISSN: | 1658-3876 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Although the distribution of thyroid carcinoma in the Arab Gulf States has been described, no previous study has examined the characteristic clinicopathologic features of thyroid carcinoma cases in the United Arab Emirates. METHODS: The medical records of 135 patients with thyroid carcinoma diagnosed over a 15-year period (1991–2005) at Tawam Hospital, the national referral oncology center in the UAE, were retrospectively studied and the cases classified according to the histologic classification of the World Health Organization (WHO). RESULTS: Seventy-eight patients (58%) were diagnosed before the age of 45 years with an overall peak incidence in the fourth and fifth decades. The female to male ratio was 2.4:1. Eighty-four percent had papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), while follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC), anaplastic thyroid carcinoma and medullary carcinoma comprised 14%, 1.4% and 0.6%, respectively. The conventional classical variant of papillary carcinoma was the most common type. Three-quarters of the papillary carcinomas presented as multinodular goiter, while one-fifth presented as a solitary thyroid nodule. Minimal invasive follicular carcinoma was the most common variant of follicular carcinoma. CONCLUSION: Thyroid carcinoma in the United Arab Emirates seems to be more common among females and female gender may be a risk factor. Age |
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