@article{oai:nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004178,
 author = {Hayashida, Naomi and Imaizumi, Misa and Shimura, Hiroki and Furuya, Fumihiko and Okubo, Noriyuki and Asari, Yasushi and Nigawara, Takeshi and Midorikawa, Sanae and Kotani, Kazuhiko and Nakaji, Shigeyuki and Ohtsuru, Akira and Akamizu, Takashi and Kitaoka, Masafumi and Suzuki, Shinichi and Taniguchi, Nobuyuki and Yamashita, Shunichi and Takamura, Noboru},
 journal = {Scientific Reports},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {We conducted ultrasound thyroid screening in cohort of 4,365 children aged between 3 to 18 years in three Japanese prefectures (Aomori, Yamanashi, and Nagasaki) using the same procedures as used in the Fukushima Health Survey. Forty-four children had nodules ? 5.1 mm in diameter or cysts ? 20.1 mm in diameter detected at the first screening, and 31 of these children underwent the second follow-up survey. We collected information from thyroid ultrasound examinations and final clinical diagnoses and re-categorized the thyroid findings after the second examination. Twenty children had nodules ? 5.1 mm in diameter or cysts ? 20.1 mm in diameter at the second examination; of these, one child was diagnosed with a thyroid papillary carcinoma and the remaining 19 children were diagnosed with possibly benign nodules such as adenomas, adenomatous nodules, and adenomatous goiters. A further 11 children were re-categorized as "no further examinations were required." Our results suggest that ultrasound thyroid findings in children may change with a relatively short-term passing period, and that thyroid cancer may exist at a very low but certain frequency in the general childhood population., Scientific Reports, 5, 9046; 2015},
 title = {Thyroid ultrasound findings in a follow-up survey of children from three Japanese prefectures: Aomori, Yamanashi, and Nagasaki},
 volume = {5},
 year = {2015}
}