Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Intraoperative management of thyroid gland in laryngeal cancer is controversial. In fact, there is no uniform consensus about the need for thyroid surgery in laryngeal cancer.Objective: Determine the incidence of thyroid gland invasion in patients undergoing surgery for laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma.Methods: A retrospective study including 62 cases of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent a total larynge...

Introduction: Ultrasound has become an indispensable diagnostic modality in the evaluation of the risk of malignancy of a thyroid nodule. Objective: Identify the predictive factors of malignancy in thyroid nodules on ultrasound.Methods: This is a retrospective study including 333 patients diagnosed with thyroid nodules and operated between 2010 and 2020. A significance threshold of 0.05 was adopted for the statistical analysis....

Introduction: Thyroid carcinoma in Graves’ disease is rare (1 to 2%). Papillary carcinoma is the most common histologic type. It is usually discovered incidentally after histologic exam. Our aim is to report a case of Graves’ disease associated with thyroid papillary carcinoma and to describe its therapeutic and prognostic features.Case report: A 51-year-old woman treated with anti-thyroid drugs and β blockers for Graves’ disease. Cer...

Introduction: Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland, which represents the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, accounting for 50 - 80% of all cases. Three treatment options are available for Graves’ disease: anti-thyroid drugs, radioactive iodine and thyroidectomy. But therapeutic management is still controversial. The aim of our study is to discuss, after a review of the literature, the role of surgery in the treatment of Graves’ diseas...