IMPE Abstracts

Background: Pediatric papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is traditionally treated with total thyroidectomy and radioactive iodine (RAI). However, growing evidence suggests that not all patients benefit from RAI. Our objective was to describe clinicopathologic features and outcomes of patients with pediatric PTC who did not receive upfront adjuvant RAI therapy.Methods: Using an IRB-approved database at a tertiary referral can...

Background: Congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) is characterized by often severe hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia due to pancreatic beta cell hypersecretion of insulin. Treatment delay confers a high risk of neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI).Methods: We performed a single-center retrospective review of medical records of CHI-patients with EEG recordings, with addition of a blinded, quantitative EEG-analysis with age-matched ...

Background: Translocations involving the X and Y chromosome are rare in humans. Here we describe two cases diagnosed during the investigation of short stature. Case 1: She was born at 38 gestational weeks (GW), with birth weight (BW) SDS -1.5 and birth length (BL) SDS -2.7. At the first assessment, she had a chronological age (CA) of 11.3ys, a height SDS of -2.2, a sitting height-to-height SDS of 4.6, and Madelung´s deformity. The height SDS of her mothe...