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Endocrine Abstracts (2024) 99 EP486 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.99.EP486

1ENT Department Farhat Hached Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia; 2Endocrinology Department Farhat Hached Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia


Introduction: Metastasis in adenopathy accompanying thyroid microcarcinoma (TMC) is a rare clinical situation. We propose to study the risk factors for their occurrence, their clinical characteristics and their therapeutic methods.

Material and methods: A retrospective study of 14 cases of TMC associated with metastatic cervical adenopathy collected in our ENT department, between 1990 and 2023.

Results: The cases studied represented 25% of all TMCs operated on during the same period. The mean age was 47.2 years, with a female predominance. The mean size of the adenopathy was 3 cm. The thyroid gland was clinically anodular in 10 cases. 13 patients had a cervical ultrasound scan showing calcifications within the adenopathy in 4 cases, considered to be a branchial cyst in one case. The thyroid was anodular in 7 cases. A cervical Computed tomography scan was performed in the case of an 8 cm lesion that had fistulated to the skin. It showed the appearance of an 84 mm multiloculated left latero-cervical mass with hypodense necrotic content and heterogeneous calcified peripheral enhancement infiltrating the lateral border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, and an 8 mm left lobar thyroid nodule. Total thyroidectomy was performed in all our patients, together with a bilateral mediastino-recurrent dissection with unilateral lateral lymph node dissection in 12 cases and bilateral dissection in one case. Adjuvant treatment was performed in 13 patients with Iodine-131.

Conclusion: The presence of adenopathy during TMC is rare. This diagnosis should be considered in young patients. It reflects aggressivity of the tumor.

Volume 99

26th European Congress of Endocrinology

Stockholm, Sweden
11 May 2024 - 14 May 2024

European Society of Endocrinology 

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