Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The discovery of a thyroid nodule exposes the problem of the possibility of thyroid cancer. The difficulty of management of this situation is the fact that only the histopathological examination can confirm or refute the malignancy. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is used as a diagnostic tool to assess thyroid nodules. The purpose of our study is to correlate the clinical, ultasonographic, the FNA results and final pathology to determine the predictors of malignancy o...

Introduction: The therapeutic management of premature ovarian failure (POF) consists of a hormone replacement therapy that must be regular to avoid cardiovascular and bone complications as well as psychological management. The objective of this work was to study complications at 15 years of evolution of 42 tunisian women followed for POF.Patients and methods: It’s a retrospective study of 42 patients followed in the endocrinology department of Souss...

Introduction: Cushing’s disease (CD) is reported in 60-70% of all patients with Cushing’s syndrome (CS), but occurs only in approximately 33% of the reported CS cases in pregnancy. Nevertheless, despite its rarity, pregnancy in patients with CS can be troublesome because of the risk of maternal-fetal complications.Observation: A 28-year-old female patient was referred to our endocrinology department for a suspected CS with morphological alter...

IntroductionParagangliomas (PGs) are rare tumors arising from sympathetic and parasympathetic paraganglia with an incidence of 15–20%. We report a case of a pre-operative diagnosis of retroperitoneal PGs evoked on anatomic imaging confirmed by biochemical evaluation.ObservationA 55-year-old female was referred to the endocrinology department for investigation of a paroxistic hypertension. For her persona...