Endocrine Abstracts

Background: analysis the epidemiologic and the clinical features of this entity, then to discuss the management Patients and methods: We report a retrospective study of 120 patients operated on for multi nodular goiter over a period of 5 years between January 2017 and December 2021.Results: In our study a female predominance was noted with a sex ratio F/H of 8/1. The average age of the patients was 44 years with extremes from 15 to...

Objective: Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of the thyroid, the diffuse sclerosing variant is however very rare and represents between 0.7 and 6.7% of all papillary thyroid carcinomas. We propose through this poster to study its clinical, epidemiological, therapeutic and prognostic characteristics.Matherials and methods: We report two cases of diffuse papillary sclerosing carcinoma of the thyroid, collected at the ENT and CC...

The goal of this study is to examine the role of surgery in the treatment of Graves’ disease and to assess the surgical outcomes.Methods: We present the results of a retrospective analysis of 31 Graves’ disease cases operated on in the ENT and cervico-facial surgery departments of Farhat Hached Sousse Hospital during a six-year period [2015-2021]. Our group consisted of 05 males and 26 women. The average age ranged from 12 to 70 years. Between ...

Thyroid surgery is a frequent procedure that has certain risks. After a complete thyroidectomy, hypocalcemia is the most prevalent consequence. It has a variety of causes, with hypoparathyroidism being the most frequent and dangerous.Materials and procedures: A retrospective analysis collected 27 cases of patients who had a total thyroidectomy complicated by hypocalcemia among 320 patients who underwent a total thyroidectomy throughout the study period, ...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the factors that cause people to flee medical treatment and to put forth management guidelines. Materials and methodes: This is a retrospective analysis of 27 instances with Graves’ disease that were resistive to medical treatment after escaping from well-conducted medical treatment in the ENT and cervico-facial surgery departments at Farhat Hached Sousse Hospital over a six-year period [2015-2021]. Results: All of the patients were pu...

Introduction: Primary hyperparathyroidism is a common disease. It is generally caused by a solitary parathyroid adenoma. Adenomas weighing more than 3.5 g are classified as giant. These giant parathyroid adenomas constitute a rare clinical entity.Case report: A 54-year-old woman was referred to our ENT department for management of newly diagnosed hypercalcaemia. She had no significant medical history. She reported mild constipation, muscular weakness, na...

Introduction: Thyroid microcarcinoma with palpable cervical node metastasis is a rare clinical situation. Through this work, we aim to study its clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary features.Material and methods: We conducted a retrospective study over 14 cases of thyroid microcarcinoma presenting with a palpable cervical lymph node metastasis collected on the ENT department of Farhat Hached hospital over 28 years (1990–2017).<p class="abstext...

Introduction: Graves’ disease represents an autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland, which therapeutic management is controversy. The aim of our study is to discuss, after a review of the literature, the role of surgery, especially total thyroidectomy, in the treatment of Graves’ disease.Patients and methods: We conducted a retrospective study of medical records of 39 patients who underwent surgery for Graves’ disease at the Department of ...

Objectives: To describe and analysis theimpact of diabetes on clinical presentation andthe difficulties we could affront within the management of this entity.Materials and methods: A retrospective study conducted between 2006 and 2019 based on 24 patients managed at our Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Department.Results: 24 poorly controlled diabetic patients were enrolled in this study: 15 men and 9 women, with a mean age of ...

Objectivesstudying the clinical and evolutionary characteristics of neuroendocrine laryngeal tumors and their management modalities.Materials and methodsA retrospective study with 4 cases of neuroendocrine tumors (NET) of the larynx ENT service of the Farhat Hached hospital of Sousse.ResultsOur series consisted of 3 men and a woman. The average age was 49 years [3...