Endocrine Abstracts

ObjectiveIllustrate the interest of imaging: Single photo emission tomography or Computed tomography in the topographic diagnosis of parathyroid adenomas.ObservationA 67-year-old man, with renal lithiasis presenting a clinical-biological picture of primary hyperparathyroidism with renal bone and colic pain. PTH was 463.2 pg/ml, calcemia 3.4 mmol/l. Cervical ultrasound objectified a lesion suspected of parathy...

ObjectiveTo highlight the diagnostic difficulties that a pathologist may encounter in identifying intra-thyroid metastasis when the primary cancer is not known.Case reportA 73-year-old woman with no specific pathological history, admitted for the management of a right mean spinal swelling that had appeared two months earlier and is gradually increasing in size. The evolution was marked by the association of d...

IntroductionAssociation between diabetes mellitus and cancer outcomes has been demonstrated in several cancer sites. Data for upper aerodigestive tract carcinoma are limited. Our aim is to study the impact of diabetes mellitus on survival in upper aerodigestive tract squamous cell carcinoma.Material and methodsA retrospective study of 130 patients treated for upper aerodigestive tract squamous cell carcinoma,...

IntroductionThyroid nodules are common. They are mostly benign nodules. Thyroid cancer is rare: 1 % of all cancer sites. Thyroid differentiated cancers are the most common histologic types. There are several factors that can predict the malignancy in patients with thyroid nodule. The purpose of this study is to identify the predictive factors of thyroid differentiated cancers.Material and methodsThis retrospe...

ObjectifBrown tumour is a rare focal bone lesion encountered in patients with uncontrolled hyperparathyroidism (HPT). This disease affects only 1.5% of patients with secondary HPT. This bone lesion can affect any part of the skeleton. The treatment is mainly medical based on reducing the rates of parathyroid hormone (PTH). Surgery is reserved for severe form of brown tumour or in case of uncontrolled level of PTH. The aim of our work is to illustrate the...

ObjectiveThyroid cancer is a rare disease in children and adolescents; it accounts for only 1.4% of all pediatric malignancies. Papillary carcinoma is the most common histological type. Furthermore, its treatment remains controversial. The aim of our work is to illustrate the clinical, histological and therapeutic features of pediatric papillary thyroid carcinoma.Materials and methodsThis is a retrospective s...