Endocrine Abstracts

Case report: A 52-year-old woman had an appointment at the dermatology department for a previous diagnosis of melasma. She was seen in October and her pigmentation had appeared somewhere during summer. She did not recall any drug intake, she denied sun exposure in the recent past, and she was a social employee working indoor.At the clinical examination intense hyperpigmentation around the eyes was noted. In contrast with the rest of the skin of normal as...

Background: Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare but very serious autoimmune disorder and it’s caused by the immune led demyelination of the peripheral nervous system. The symptoms are mainly weakness and numbness, but can also consist in severe respiratory failure due to paralysis. The treatment consist in administration of intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIGs) which shorten the duration of disease.Case presentation: A 67 year-old m...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is a slow growing tumor and is reputed to have an excellent prognosis. In 10–20% of cases, the presence of lymph node metastases led to diagnosis.Objective: To present a patient with enlarged lateral cervical masses, present for 10 years, that proved to be lymph nodes with metastatic thyroid papillary carcinoma.Case report: We report a case of an 26-year-old female patient with 10 years evolution of...

Vitiligo is a common skin depigmenting disease, which is thought to have, at least partly, an autoimmune etiology.Our objective was to compare the frequency of thyroid peroxidase antibody (anti-TPO) in vitiligo patients over a period of 3 years (2010–2012) in our Department.Methods: Anti-TPO levels were assessed in order to detect any correlation with the onset, the evolution and the treatment of vitiligo. Patients with vitili...