Abstract:Objective: To determine demographic and biochemical features of childhood and juvenile thyrotoxicosis and determine the treatment outcomes in them. Methods: We reviewed records of 503 children from in 12 different cities of Turkey who were diagnosed with thyrotoxicosis between 2007 to 2017. Results: In all, 375 (74.6%) patients had been diagnosed with Graves' disease (GD) and 75 (14.9%) had hashitoxicosis, and 53 (10.5%) had been diagnosed with uncommon causes of thyrotoxicosis. Commonest presenting features i… Show more
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