Endocrine Abstracts

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...

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 analyze the clinical presentation and prognosis of Bell’s palsy in diabetic patients.Materiel and methodsThis retrospective study included 76 diabetic patients with Bell ’s palsy in the ENT department of Tahar Sfar Mahdia; Tunisia from January 1988 to December 2018. The system of House-Brackmann was used for assessing the severity of nerve damage.Results<p clas...

ObjectiveTo summarize the characteristics and treatment experience of cervicofacial odontogenic cellulitis in diabetic patients and to provide clinical basis for the diagnosis and treatment.Material and methodRetrospectively analysed 50 cases of cervicofacial cellulitis in diabetics in the ENT department of Taher Sfar Mahdia, Tunisia from from january 2015 to december 2018.Results<p...

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...

IntroductionParathyroid surgery is indicated essentially in primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism. This surgery may present some difficulties even in experienced hands. Our aim is to describe the difficulties that can occur during parathyroid surgery.Material and methodsA retrospective study including 81 cases of hyperparathyroidism, operated between 2001 and 2018.Results<p clas...

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: 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: Necrotizing otitis externa (NOE) is an invasive infection. It may present with a variety of clinical findings. The most common symptoms are purulent otorrhea and exquisite otalgia resistant to analgesics. Diabetics are susceptible to microangiopathy that dulls pain perception thus predisposing them to severe complications of inctious disease.Materials and methods: We reported ten cases of complicated necrotizing otitis externa in diabetic p...

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...