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Background: Thyroid cancer in pediatric patients is distinct from adult-onset thyroid cancer due to differences in disease presentation, management and outcomes. This meta-analysis delves into contemporary data on managing pediatric differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), assessing outcomes, such as recurrence and mortality, in children with radical total thyroidectomy versus the more conservative lobectomy approach.
Methods: MEDLINE (via PubMed), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), trial registry websites (ClinicalTrials.gov), and relevant congress abstracts were searched to identify eligible articles from the database inception to September 2023. Assessing study quality involved the Cochrane risk of bias tools (ROBINS-I), and overall evidence quality was gauged with the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) tool. Investigated outcomes included recurrence rates, mortality rates, postoperative complications and independently permanent hypoparathyroidism and recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy (RLNP), postoperative radioiodine (RAI) and reoperation.
Results: Twenty-two observational studies with 11,684 patients were included. No significant difference was seen between the two groups regarding the mortality rates, overall postoperative complications and RLNP. The meta-analysis demonstrated that in the thyroid lobectomy group, the recurrence rate [relative risk (RR 1.80, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.22-2.67] and need for reoperation were higher (RR 3.99, 95% CI 2.01-7.92), while permanent hypoparathyroidism (RR 0.23, 95% CI 0.11-0.49) and postoperative RAI (RR 0.42, 95% CI 0.20-0.87) decreased.
Conclusion: Total thyroidectomy is favored in pediatric thyroid cancer, showing lower recurrence and reoperation rates compared to lobectomy. For more robust findings, we strongly advocate for the implementation of well-designed randomized controlled trials.
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