Research Article
Spontaneous Slowing and Regressing of Tumor Growth in Childhood/Adolescent Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas Suggested by the Postoperative Thyroglobulin-Doubling Time
Table 1
Clinical and biochemical features of the 14 childhood or adolescent patients with papillary thyroid carcinomas.
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Values are median (ranges) and numbers of cases, Tg: thyroglobulin, Tg-DT: thyroglobulin-doubling time, and hTV-DT: hypothetical tumor volume-doubling time. Note that 1/Tg-DT was significantly smaller than 1/hTV-DT (). |