Endocrine Abstracts

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is rare in young patients and have a good prognosis, although it is often diagnosed at the stage of lung metastases. Our multicenter study included 15 children aged between 5 and 18 years with female predominance, followed for differentiated thyroid cancer with lung metastases. All these patients underwent a whole body scan with I-131, serum thyroglobulin, chest radiography and/or cervico-thoracic CT. Scintigraphy had shown pulmonary miliary among a...

Introduction: Thyroid tuberculosis is a rare disease, its frequency is 0.15–0.2% of autopsic data. We report a case of micro papillary carcinoma of thyroid revealed by thyroid tuberculosis.Observation: Mrs. K.J aged 54 years presented a multinodular goiter without ultrasound signs of malignancy. The patient underwent total thyroidectomy. Histological examination revealed a granulomatous and giganto cellular inflammation which is in favor of a tuberc...