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Endocrine Abstracts (2022) 81 EP1218 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.81.EP1218

ENT Department Farhat Hached Hospital Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia


Background: To study the diagnostic difficulties, the clinical characteristics, as well as the therapeutic modalities of this entity.

Material and method: Report a case of oncocytic carcinoma of the thyroid of aggressive evolution collected in the ENT department and CCF Farhat Hached in Sousse.

Result: This is a 54-year-old patient, with no notable history, who was operated on in 2012 for a large goiter evolving for 3 years previously, having had a total thyroidectomy, with an anatomopathological examination objectifying an oncocytic adenoma on a goiter multi nodular. The patient was lost to follow-up, then reconsulted 5 years later, for the reappearance of a voluminous right anterior cervical swelling and cervical polyadenopathy, associated with dyspnea and hemoptysis. A cervico-thoracic CT showed a tumoral process above and below the glottic laryngeal with signs of locoregional extension, a tumoral process of the thyroid compartment and pulmonary lesions of secondary appearance. A histological re-reading was requested, correcting the diagnosis towards an oncocyte-type vesicular carcinoma. The patient had a lumpectomy with an anapath result confirming tumor recurrence. Additional radiation therapy was performed and the patient was put on L-thyroxine at a restraining dose. He was again lost sight.

Conclusion: Oncocytic carcinoma of the thyroid is a rare, aggressive tumor with metastatic potential posing an anatomopathologic diagnostic and therapeutic problem, requiring careful histological verification and adequate surgical management.

Volume 81

European Congress of Endocrinology 2022

Milan, Italy
21 May 2022 - 24 May 2022

European Society of Endocrinology 

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