Endocrine Abstracts

AimsNecrotizing external otitis (NEO) is osteomyelitis of the base of the skull. Previously Pseudomonas Aeruginosa was incriminated in 90% of cases. However, fungal NEO have been emerging in recent years. It is a pathology that occurs primarily in immunocompromised terrain such as diabetic and may affect the patient’s functional and vital prognosis.Materials and methodsA retrospective study of 20 cases o...

Objectivesstudying the clinical and evolutionary characteristics of neuroendocrine laryngeal tumors and their management modalities.Materials and methodsA retrospective study with 4 cases of neuroendocrine tumors (NET) of the larynx ENT service of the Farhat Hached hospital of Sousse.ResultsOur series consisted of 3 men and a woman. The average age was 49 years [3...

AimsStudying the clinical presentation, paraclinical explorations, and therapeutic modalities of thyroid abscess.Materials and methodsWe report the observation of a diabetic patient with multiple thyroidian abscesses, hospitalized in the ENT department.ObservationThe patient is 55 years old, diabetic, treated one month before admission for urinary tract infection....

IntroductionThe parathyroid cyst is a benign lesion that develops at the expense of the gland parathyroid. It is rarely revealed by palpable cervical swelling and is often a surgical discovery. The purpose of our work is to report an observation of parathyroid cyst, and specify the methods of pre-operative diagnosis and the different therapeutic possibilities.Materials and methodsWe report an observation of a...

GoalsThe purpose of this work is to study histological, clinical, and therapeutic features neuroendocrine carcinomas of the thyroid.Materials and methodsWe report a case of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the thyroid colliged in ENT department of sousse.ObservationThe case involved an 83-year-old woman with a history of family dysthyroidism who had significant cervica...

AimsTo describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of temporal-osteomyelitis mandibular complicating necrotizing otitis externa and discuss how to take it in load.Materials and methodsThis is an 18-year retrospective study [2010–2017], conducted in our ENT department, collecting 74 hospitalized patients for management of necrotizing otitis externa.Results<p class=...

Aimidentify the clinical presentation of retropharyngeal abscesses in adults and the therapeutic management modalities.Materials and methodsWe illustrate two cases of retropharyngeal abscess in two elderly subjects collected in the ENT department of the Farhat Hached hospital in Sousse.Observations1-/It is about a 70-year-old man, diabetic (DNID) who consulted us ...

Introduction and aimsMacroscopic angioinvasion associated to lymph node metastasis from follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is scarce and leads usually to a poor outcome.Subjects and methodsWe report a case of FTC with extensive vascular invasion into the right jugular vein and numerous lymph nodes. We reviewed clinical records of our patient and analysed clinical outcomes and thyroglobulin rate as well as ima...

IntroductionThyroid carcinoma is the most common type of endocrine malignancy and the cancer with the largest annual increase in incidence in recent decades. They are classified as primary or metastatic. The most common thyroid cancer subtypes include papillary, follicular, medullary, and anaplastic. We aim to present 11 cases of exceptional thyroid malignancies managed in our department.Materiel and methodsA...