Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hot nodules represent 10% of thyroid nodules. They are defined by scintigraphic examination, which shows areas fixing the radiotracer more intensely than the rest of the gland. The aim of our work is to study the clinical, paraclinical aspects and therapeutic modalities of hot thyroid nodules.Materials and methods: We report a retrospective study about 45 observations of hot thyroid nodules collected at our department...

Purpose: Mucormycosis is a rare and potentially fatal invasive fungal infection which usually occurs in diabetic and other immunocompromised patients. This infection is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Prompt diagnosis and rapid aggressive surgical debridement and antimycotic therapy are essential for the patient’s survival. The purpose of this study was to expose the clinical feature, and to discuss the specificities management of mucormycosis in the s...

Purpose: Retropharyngeal abscesses are rare in adults. They most commonly occur in immunocompromised patients as well as older one with systemic diseases like diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study is toidentify the clinical presentation of retropharyngeal abscesses and therapeutic challenges in diabetic patient.Case report: It is about a 50-year-old man, diabetic (DNID) who consulted us for intense cervicalgia, odynophagia and mixed high dysphagia ass...

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...

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...

Introduction: Distant metastases of thyroid tumors are rare. They are mainly of pulmonary (10-15%), bone (9%) and brain (<1%) location. These metastases are more frequent with vesicular (20%) than papillary (3.5%) histological type carcinoma. The aim of our work is to document the clinical and radiological aspects as well as the therapeutic modalities of these entities.Materials and methods: We report 4 cases of distant metastasis that revealed a dif...

Introduction: Mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic aggressive fungal infection usually occurs patients with immune deficiency especially in diabetic. Extension is rapid, with a high rate of mortality. The pathogen is a filamentous fungus of the zygomycete class of the Mucorales order. The aim of this study to reveal clinical, paraclinical manifestations of this entity and its prognosis.Material and methods: A retrospective study about 8 cases of mucormyc...

Introduction: Primary thyroid non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which is defined as a lymphoma occurring in the thyroid gland, is a quite rare pathologic entity, accounting for 1, 3-1, 5 % of thyroid neoplasm, and 0, 5% of lymphoma. The aim of our work is to evaluate the clinicopathological features and treatment outcomes of patients with primary thyroid lymphoma.Material and methods: We report 8cases of primary thyroid lymphoma collected at our department be...