Endocrine Abstracts

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...

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...

GoalsThe purpose of this work is to study histological, clinical, and therapeutic features neuroendocrine carcinomas of the thyroid.Materials and methodsWe report a case of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the thyroid colliged in ENT department of sousse.ObservationThe case involved an 83-year-old woman with a history of family dysthyroidism who had significant cervica...

Aimidentify the clinical presentation of retropharyngeal abscesses in adults and the therapeutic management modalities.Materials and methodsWe illustrate two cases of retropharyngeal abscess in two elderly subjects collected in the ENT department of the Farhat Hached hospital in Sousse.Observations1-/It is about a 70-year-old man, diabetic (DNID) who consulted us ...

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...