Endocrine Abstracts

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...

Introduction: Cervicofacial cellulitis represents one of the most worrying infectious emergencies in ENT despite their frequency which has clearly decreased since the advent of antibiotics. From a simple infection, most often dental or in the ENT sphere, it produces an infiltration of the cellulo-adipose tissue of the face and neck with extensive necrosis of the cervical and even mediastinal aponeurotic spaces especially in diabetic patients. The management must be rapid and e...

Introduction: Ramsay Hunt syndrome or Herpes Zoster Oticus is characterized by reactivation of latent varicella zoster virus in the geniculate ganglion and subsequent spread to cranial nerve. The diagnosis is mainly clinical. The facial paralysis seen in Ramsay Hunt syndrome is often more severe with the increased rate of late neural denervation and the decrease chance of complete recovery especially in diabetic patients. The aim of this study is to focus on the association be...

Introduction: A nasal septal abscess (NSA) is defined as a collection of pus between the cartilage or bony septum and its mucoperichondrium or mucoperiostium. NSA caused by uncontrolled diabetes mellitus are rare. The aim of this study is to focus on the association between diabetes mellitus and NSA.Materials and methods: We report two rare cases of NSA in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus collected in ENT department of Farhat Hached Hospital of Sou...

Introduction: Neuroendocrine tumors of head and neck region are rare and heterogeneous. it can arise in all the different organs of this region, including the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, larynx, thyroid, can be divided into two broad groups: those with epithelial differentiation, and neurally derived tumours, including paragangliomas and olfactory neuroblastomas. Their morphological and clinical features mainly depend on the degree of differentiation and on the site of or...

Introduction: Paragangliomas are a diverse group of neuroendocrine tumors arising from chromaffin cells within paraganglionic tissues of the autonomic nervous system.The aim of this study is to review our experience in the management of these tumors.Methods: The medical records of 12 patients with 13 paraganliomas was performed in a a single academic hospital over a period of 32 years from 1990 to 2022.Result...

Introduction: Laryngeal neuroendocrine neoplasms are very rare malignancies comprising less than 1% of all laryngeal neoplasms.Methods: Retrospective study including 5 cases of pharyngolaryngeal neuroendocrine tumors.Results: The average age was 49 years ranging from 35 to63 years with a sex ratio of 4. The average consultation delay was 8 monthes. All patients patients were tobacco users. the chief complaint was dysphonia and dysp...

Introduction: The tuberculous lymphadenitis is the most common form of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. The association with thyroid cancer is rare and can mislead the physician with the lymphadenopathy being considered as metastatic. In an endemic region for tuberculosis such as Tunisia, an adequate preoperative evaluation is crucial to distinguish these two entities and provide the patient with the appropriate treatment.Material and methods: 2 cases of a ...

Purpose: Retropharyngeal lymph nodes metastases from differentiated thyroid carcinoma are extremely rare. The objective of this study was to describe our experience in the management of a vesicular thyroid carcinoma with RPMs.Case report: We report a case of 60 years old female patient who presented a thyroid goiter with pressure symptoms as well as dysphagia. Initial Serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) rate was normal. The ultrasound thyroid showed ...

Introduction: The occurrence of a thyroid cancer on Graves’ disease is rare (0.3 to 16.6%). Most often than not, the type found is a papillary carcinoma and is discovered incidentally. Finding a thyroid nodule within the goiter must always raise suspicion of malignancy. Material and methods: We report the case of a patient followed for Grave’s disease in whom a fortuitous association with differentiated thyroid cancer was discovered on a pathol...