Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Mucormycosis is an unusual but serious fungal infection that most commonly affects people with diabetes mellitus. Treatment shoud be initiated urgently and associates antifungal treatment, surgical resection and control of risk factors. This infection is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates.Case reports: We report three cases of rhinosinusal mucormycosis occuring occurring in one female and two males. The medium age of the pat...

Introduction: Fungal necrotizing otitis externa is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition that is challenging to manage. Diabetic patients are susceptible to develop this severe infection. The diagnosis is often delayed and its frequency has increased over the last few years.Material and Methods: we reported 8 cases of fungal necrotizing external otitis in diabetic patients treated in the ENT department of Tahar Sfar Hospital in Tunisia fro...

Introduction: The management of patients with nodular goiter and thyroid neoplasms is one of the most important problems in modern thyroidology. There are several classifications based on thyroid ultrasound for selecting suspected malignant thyroid nodules. The Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS) classification is an easy to apply for thyroid lesions, which might be helpful in clinical practice for the initial assessment of the thyroid lesion risk of malignancy...

Introduction: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma also known as undifferentiated carcinoma is a rare and highly aggressive malignant tumor. It continues to rank as one of the deadliest diseases worldwide and carries a very poor prognosis. It is an aggressive locoregional disease with a high metastatic capacity. There is no agreement with regards to the best treatment.Material and Methods: We reporteded 6 cases of anaplastic thyroid carcinomas treated in the ENT...

Introduction: An abnormally positioned thymus may either be aberrant or ectopic. Aberrant cervical thymus (ACT) is located along the normal pathway of descent of the thymus, with an attachment to mediastinal thymus via thymic tissue or fibrous cord in 50% of the cases. ACT is usually diagnosed within the first and second decade of life, and most lesions are cystic.Case report: We report a case of 9-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for the oper...

Introduction: Thyroid papillary microcarcinoma is a subtype of papillary carcinoma that included tumors with less than 10 mm diameter. Its therapeutic management is still a subject of controversy.Material and Methods: We conducted a retrospective study over 20 cases of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma at the ENT department of Tahar Sfar Hospital in Mahdia over 17 years (2000–2017).Results: We report 20 cases of papillary thyr...

Introduction: Although Primary hyperparathyroidism is the most common cause of hypercalcemia in the general population, it is a less frequent cause of hypercalcemia among patients with cancer. It is estimated that approximately 80% of the hypercalcemia in cancer is mediated by humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy resulting from elevated parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrp), while almost 20% is the result of local osteolytic hypercalcemia. The aim of this work is to prese...

Introduction: This study aims to investigate the epidemiological, clinical, and therapeutic dimensions of cervicofacial hydatidosis.Materials and Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 18 patients who underwent surgery for cervicofacial hydatid cysts between 1982 and 2018.Results: The average age of the patients was 26 years, ranging from 2 to 79 years. The distribution of cysts included cervical muscle in 8 cases, thyr...

Introduction: Thyroidectomy in the pediatric population is a seldom-performed surgical procedure, primarily associated with thyroid neoplasms. However, certain benign thyroid gland conditions, such as Graves’ disease, toxic adenomas, congenital hyperthyroidism, and goiter, also necessitate surgical intervention in children. Performing such surgeries in pediatric patients poses significant challenges for surgeons. This study aims to investigate the epidemiological and clin...

Introduction: Thyroid abscess in the pediatric population is an uncommon presentation and the rarest form of thyroiditis. Anomalies of the third and fourth branches account for 2-8% of cases. Through the observation of febrile torticollis secondary to an acute suppurative thyroiditis, we describe our diagnostic and etiological approach and specify its therapeutic management.Materials and Methods: We present a rare case of an abscessed thyroiditis complic...