Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Otogenic cerebral thrombophlebitis is a rare intracranial complication of otitis media in the modern age of antibiotic treatment, but it is potentially a dangerous complication spatially in immune depressed patients with diabetes.Aim: To discuss the clinical features of this complication and to analyze the impact of diabetes on its evolution as well as the management of this entity.Methods: We conducted a retrospective ...

Background: Hürthle cell carcinoma or oncocytic carcinoma of the thyroid gland is an unusual and relatively rare type of differentiated thyroid cancer. It accounts for only about 3–10% of all differentiated thyroid cancers. Its diagnosis as well as its management remains a subject of controversies.Aim: The purpose of this paper is to describe clinical presentation as well as the difficulties we can affront within the diagnosis and the treatmen...