Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Cervical lymphadenopathy is often a diagnostic challenge to medical professional due to its varied etiologies. Malignancies and infections are the main causative factors that should be included in the differential diagnosis. Cervical lymphadenitis is a common manifestation of extra-pulmonary invasion of the tuberculosis. A cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis could be confused with metastatic lymph node of thyroid cancer.Case reports: Case 1:...

Introduction: Graves’ disease represents an autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland, which therapeutic management is controversy. The aim of our study is to discuss, after a review of the literature, the role of surgery, especially total thyroidectomy, in the treatment of Graves’ disease.Patients and methods: We conducted a retrospective study of medical records of 39 patients who underwent surgery for Graves’ disease at the Department of ...

Objectives: To describe and analysis theimpact of diabetes on clinical presentation andthe difficulties we could affront within the management of this entity.Materials and methods: A retrospective study conducted between 2006 and 2019 based on 24 patients managed at our Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Department.Results: 24 poorly controlled diabetic patients were enrolled in this study: 15 men and 9 women, with a mean age of ...

Background: Otogenic cerebral thrombophlebitis is a rare intracranial complication of otitis media in the modern age of antibiotic treatment, but it is potentially a dangerous complication spatially in immune depressed patients with diabetes.Aim: To discuss the clinical features of this complication and to analyze the impact of diabetes on its evolution as well as the management of this entity.Methods: We conducted a retrospective ...

Background: Hürthle cell carcinoma or oncocytic carcinoma of the thyroid gland is an unusual and relatively rare type of differentiated thyroid cancer. It accounts for only about 3–10% of all differentiated thyroid cancers. Its diagnosis as well as its management remains a subject of controversies.Aim: The purpose of this paper is to describe clinical presentation as well as the difficulties we can affront within the diagnosis and the treatmen...

AimsNecrotizing external otitis (NEO) is osteomyelitis of the base of the skull. Previously Pseudomonas Aeruginosa was incriminated in 90% of cases. However, fungal NEO have been emerging in recent years. It is a pathology that occurs primarily in immunocompromised terrain such as diabetic and may affect the patient’s functional and vital prognosis.Materials and methodsA retrospective study of 20 cases o...

Objectivesstudying the clinical and evolutionary characteristics of neuroendocrine laryngeal tumors and their management modalities.Materials and methodsA retrospective study with 4 cases of neuroendocrine tumors (NET) of the larynx ENT service of the Farhat Hached hospital of Sousse.ResultsOur series consisted of 3 men and a woman. The average age was 49 years [3...

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...

AimsStudying the clinical presentation, paraclinical explorations, and therapeutic modalities of thyroid abscess.Materials and methodsWe report the observation of a diabetic patient with multiple thyroidian abscesses, hospitalized in the ENT department.ObservationThe patient is 55 years old, diabetic, treated one month before admission for urinary tract infection....

IntroductionThe parathyroid cyst is a benign lesion that develops at the expense of the gland parathyroid. It is rarely revealed by palpable cervical swelling and is often a surgical discovery. The purpose of our work is to report an observation of parathyroid cyst, and specify the methods of pre-operative diagnosis and the different therapeutic possibilities.Materials and methodsWe report an observation of a...