Autoimmune disease, familial clustering and thyroid carcinoma coexistent with autoimmune thyroiditis in children and adolescence: A cross-sectional study from the Czech Republic

Abstract

The prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis, as the most common autoimmune disease and papillary thyroid cancer is steadily rising in children. The aim of this study was to determine the coexistence of other AD and thyroid carcinoma in AIT.

Keywords

• autoimmune thyroiditis
• associated autoimmune diseases
• familial occurence of autoimmune diseases
• prevalence
• papillary thyroid carcinoma