Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: To describe and analysis theimpact of diabetes on clinical presentation andthe difficulties we could affront within the management of this entity.Materials and methods: A retrospective study conducted between 2006 and 2019 based on 24 patients managed at our Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Department.Results: 24 poorly controlled diabetic patients were enrolled in this study: 15 men and 9 women, with a mean age of ...

Background: Hürthle cell carcinoma or oncocytic carcinoma of the thyroid gland is an unusual and relatively rare type of differentiated thyroid cancer. It accounts for only about 3–10% of all differentiated thyroid cancers. Its diagnosis as well as its management remains a subject of controversies.Aim: The purpose of this paper is to describe clinical presentation as well as the difficulties we can affront within the diagnosis and the treatmen...

Background: analysis the epidemiologic and the clinical features of this entity, then to discuss the management Patients and methods: We report a retrospective study of 120 patients operated on for multi nodular goiter over a period of 5 years between January 2017 and December 2021.Results: In our study a female predominance was noted with a sex ratio F/H of 8/1. The average age of the patients was 44 years with extremes from 15 to...

Introduction: Oncocytic tumors of the thyroid include adenomas and carcinomas. The distinction between malignancy and benignity represents a major difficulty on the histological level. From this aspect arise constraints in the attitude therapy to adopt.Material and methods: we present one rare case of an oncocytic carcinoma of the thyroid with laryngotracheal invasion in a 54 male patient operated in ENT department of Farhat Hached hospital of Sou...