Autoimmune disease, familial clustering and thyroid carcinoma coexistent with autoimmune thyroiditis in children and adolescence: A cross-sectional study from the Czech Republic
Background: The prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT), as the most common autoimmune disease (AD) and papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is steadily rising in children.The aim of this study was to determine the coexistence of other AD and thyroid carcinoma (TC) in AIT.Methods: The cross-sectional study conducted at a tertiary center comprised AIT