Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: 5-10% of papillary thyroid carcinoma develop metastatic disease, of which about 60-70% will become refractory to radioactive iodine. Significant negative impact on the prognosis and an average life expectancy of 3 to 5 years.Material and method: Since 2018, patients with refractory thyroid carcinoma and considered to be progressive according to the RECIST criteria have been treated with anti tyrosine Kinase type sorafenib.<p class="abst...

Introduction: The Marine-Lenhart syndrome (MLS) is commonly defined as a combination of Graves’ disease and autonomous functioning thyroid nodule (s). the risk of malignancy of these nodules is less than 1% We report a case.Observation: 27-year-old patient, hospitalized for treatment of a basal disease, cervical ultrasound found a 1.5 cm lower left lobe thyroid nodule classified eutirads 4. the sintigraphy found an aspect of diffuse hypercaptive goi...

Introduction: Cervical lymph node metastases from differentiated thyroid carcinomas occur mainly in the central compartment with an incidence between 20 and 90% (average 60%). The American Thyroid Association considers that the central compartment goes to the unnamed artery thus systematically including level VII to level VI. We report the case of a patient with resected level VII lymph thanks to identification by technetium99-nanocolloid.Observation: Pa...

Introduction: Familial follicular cell-derived tumors may account 5–15% of thyroid carcinoma cases. Defined as the attainment of two or more first-degree relatives by thyroid cancer in the absence of a known familial syndrome. When three or more family members are affected, the probability that the disease has a familial origin is 99.9%. We report the case of a family of 4 siblings affected.Observation: – Patient aged 43 years, without a person...