Abstracts from the 9th Biennial Scientific Meeting of the Asia Pacific Paediatric Endocrine Society (APPES) and the 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (JSPE)

Table 1 (abstract MTE7). See text for description

ATA Pediatric Risk Level	Definition	Initial Post-operative Staging
Low	Disease confined to the thyroid with minimal level VI lymph node metastasis	TSH suppressed Tg at 3 month intervals with neck ultrasound at 6 months
Intermediate	Extrathyroidal extension with extensive level VI or lateral neck lymph node metastasis	TSH-stimulated Tg and diagnostic 123I whole body scan
High	Regionally extensive disease with or without distant metastasis	TSH-stimulated Tg and diagnostic 123I whole body scan

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