Improvement of methods of diagnosis and treatment of thyroid tumors in children and adolescents (on the model of the Rostov region).
Author：Yu.Yu. Kozel
Reference: Dissertation, doctor of medical sciences, Roftov-na-Donu, 2006
Keywords: children, adolescence, immune-genetic research
Abstract: 20 years after the accident of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it becomes all the more clear, by facts, that sharp increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer, especially malignant tumors, has become the basic health effects of radiation. Most tragically, the above mentioned fact is observed among persons who, at the time of the accident, were children or teenagers and were exposed to radioactive iodine (Vtyurin BM et al., 2003). …
Aim of research: to develop tactics of examination of children and adolescents with thyroid tumors, based on the analysis of clinical and diagnostic data, including usage of immune-genetic studies. Optimization of method to treat these diseases, considering the immune-genetic characteristics of the child.