Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Necrotizing external otitis (NEO) is a serious life-threatening infection of the external ear and skull base condition. The precise etiology of this condition is unknown. Diabetes mellitus is well known to be one of the most tightly associated characteristics seen in NEO patients. It is documented that diabetes causes endarteritis and microangiopathy, leading to poor microcirculation and impaired polymorphonuclear cell function.Patients and...

Introduction: Bronchogenic cysts are rare benign congenital anomalies related to the abnormal budding of the tracheobronchial tree during embryological development. They are usually located in the mediastinum and intrapulmonary regions. Localization in the cervical area is unusual, and specially, bronchogenic cysts presenting as thyroid cyst are quite rare.Case report: A 43-year-old woman presented with a seven months’ thyroid mass. The patient had ...

Introduction: Thyroid dyshormonogenesis continues to be a significant cause of congenital hypothyroidism occurring due to a lack of enzymes necessary for the synthesis of thyroid hormones. Treatment can be medical or surgical. Early treatment is important to avoid mental retardation and growth abnormalities.Case reports: We report 3 cases of dyshormonogenetic goiter occurring in 1 female and 2 males. The medium age of the patients was 12 years ranging fr...

AimsNecrotizing external otitis (NEO) is osteomyelitis of the base of the skull. Previously Pseudomonas Aeruginosa was incriminated in 90% of cases. However, fungal NEO have been emerging in recent years. It is a pathology that occurs primarily in immunocompromised terrain such as diabetic and may affect the patient’s functional and vital prognosis.Materials and methodsA retrospective study of 20 cases o...

GoalsThe purpose of this work is to study histological, clinical, and therapeutic features neuroendocrine carcinomas of the thyroid.Materials and methodsWe report a case of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the thyroid colliged in ENT department of sousse.ObservationThe case involved an 83-year-old woman with a history of family dysthyroidism who had significant cervica...

AimsTo describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of temporal-osteomyelitis mandibular complicating necrotizing otitis externa and discuss how to take it in load.Materials and methodsThis is an 18-year retrospective study [2010–2017], conducted in our ENT department, collecting 74 hospitalized patients for management of necrotizing otitis externa.Results<p class=...

Aimidentify the clinical presentation of retropharyngeal abscesses in adults and the therapeutic management modalities.Materials and methodsWe illustrate two cases of retropharyngeal abscess in two elderly subjects collected in the ENT department of the Farhat Hached hospital in Sousse.Observations1-/It is about a 70-year-old man, diabetic (DNID) who consulted us ...

Introduction: Oncocytic tumors of the thyroid include adenomas and carcinomas. The distinction between malignancy and benignity represents a major difficulty on the histological level. From this aspect arise constraints in the attitude therapy to adopt.Material and methods: we present one rare case of an oncocytic carcinoma of the thyroid with laryngotracheal invasion in a 54 male patient operated in ENT department of Farhat Hached hospital of Sou...

Background: Primary thyroid non Hodgkin’s lymphoma (PT-NHL), which defined as a lymphoma occurring in the thyroid gland with or without the involvement of regional lymph nodes, is a quite rare pathologic entity, accounting for 1,3-1,5 % of thyroid neoplasm, and 0,5% of lymphoma. there exists insufficient data to describe the incidence of mantle cell lymphoma in the thyroid gland. Due to this rarity and non specific clinical presentation, it seems essentiel to better under...

Background: To study the diagnostic difficulties, the clinical characteristics, as well as the therapeutic modalities of this entity.Material and method: Report a case of oncocytic carcinoma of the thyroid of aggressive evolution collected in the ENT department and CCF Farhat Hached in Sousse. Result: This is a 54-year-old patient, with no notable history, who was operated on in 2012 for a large goiter evolving for 3 years previous...