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...

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...

Introduction: Dyshormonogenetic goiter (DG) is considered as a form of thyroid hyperplasia due to enzymatic defects in hormone synthesis. The architectural polymorphism and cellular atypia may mimic thyroid neoplasms and cause difficulties in differential diagnosis.Results: We report 3 cases of DG occurring in one females and two males who were aged 20, 9, and 7 years old, respictively. All patients presented with clinically evidence of goiter. Hypothyro...

Introduction: Remnants of the fourth branchial arch are extremely rare with less than 100 cases reported in the literature and account for 1–4% of all branchial anomalies. These anomalies typically present as recurrent neck infections and/or abscesses or acute suppurative thyroiditis. We report a case of cyst of the 4th cleft revealed by a thyroiditis treated in our department.Case report: A 6-year-old boy presented with recurrent neck swellings. Du...

Introduction: Metastases of thyroid tumors are rare. Metastatic sites are in order of frequency : pulmonary, bone and brain. Facial bones metastases are exceptional. These metastases are more frequent in vesicular than papillary carcinoma histological. The aim of our work is to describe the clinical and radiological aspects as well as the therapeutic modalities.Observation 1 and 2: A 38-year-old woman and 13-year-old boy consulted for a chronic cough wit...

Background: analysis the epidemiologic and the clinical features of this entity, then to discuss the management Patients and methods: We report a retrospective study of 120 patients operated on for multi nodular goiter over a period of 5 years between January 2017 and December 2021.Results: In our study a female predominance was noted with a sex ratio F/H of 8/1. The average age of the patients was 44 years with extremes from 15 to...