Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Intrathyroid metastases are rare (less than 1% of thyroid cancers). They can be synchronous or metachronous. The origin of primary cancer is variable; the kidney, lung, stomach and breast being the most described sites.Through this case, we describe the diagnostic difficulties that the pathologist may encounter in the identification of these metastases.Materials and methods: We report a case of intrathyroid metastasis...

Introduction: Cervical lymphadenopathy is a frequent reason for ENT consultation. In most cases the diagnosis is easy based on clinical, radiological and cytopathological data. However, in some situations, the diagnosis remains pending. The objective of this work is to study the possible difficulties face to a chronic cystic cervical lymphadenopathy.Materials and methods: It is a retrospective study bringing 4 cases of cervical cystic lymphadenopathy rev...

Introduction: Hyperparathyroidism is a fairly common pathology that can cause functional and vital complications. Its treatment combines a medical component and a surgical one.The aim of this work is to specify the surgical indications for this pathology.Materials and methods: It is a retrospective study bringing 58 cases of secondary hyperparathyroidism collected over a period of 16 years (from 2001 to 2016).<p class="abstext"...

Introduction: Chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis is an autoimmune pathology affecting 5% of the population. Treatment is most often medical based on hormone treatment. Sometimes thyroiditis will be associated with benign or malignant nodular pathologies requiring the use of surgery. The objective of this study is to describe the diagnostic, therapeutic and evolutionary features of this entity.Materials and methods: It is a retrospective study bringing 28 ca...

GoalsThe most common complication of thyroidectomy is hypocalcaemia. The aim of this work is to determine the epidemiological, ethiopathogenic and therapeutic characteristics of hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy.Material and methodsThis is a retrospective study of 27 cases of patients operated on for a total thyroidectomy complicated by hypocalcemia, over a period of 9 years (2009–2017) collected by...

IntroductionMucormycosis is a rare and often fatal fungal infection which is caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes.It usually occurs in immunocompromised subjects and especially diabetics. The aim of our work is to specify the epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic characteristics of ENT mucormycosis in diabetic subjects.Material and methodsA retrospective study included 4 diabetic patients with E...