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ience in the management of differentiated thyroid carcinomas in a low- income country. Materials and Methods: We performed a retrospective study in our department where 21 cases of differentiated thyroid carcinomas were recorded from February 2001 to December 2010. Results: We performed 334 thyroidectomies for 326 patients. Of this group, 21 differentiated thyroid carcinomas were diagnosed. Differentiated thyroid carcinomas represented 6.4% of all thyroid neoplasm managed during the same period (n=326). Median age was 44 years (range 13 - 75 years). Male to female ratio was 1:20. Six (6) patients underwent primary hemithyroidectomy in other institutions while the fifteen left were entirely managed in our clinic. Of them, one patient was referred with positive fine needle aspiration cytology for papillary thyroid carcinoma (incidental detection by fine needle aspiration biopsy) and another had history of sinus pyriform fistula. Pathology of surgical specimens showed 13 cases of papillary thyroid carcinomas and 8 cases of follicular thyroid carcinomas with association to Hashimoto thyroiditis and Grave's disease in respectively in 1 case. Twenty cases were incidentally discovered by thyroid surgery and undergone completion thyroidectomy with prophylactic central neck dissection, completion thyroidectomy alone, modified lateral neck dissection alone and surveillance respectively in 13, 1, 1 and 6 cases. Complications of thyroid surgery were bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis and hematoma respectively in 1 case. Median hospital stay was 5 days ranged from 3 to 15 days. During the follow-up period, most of our patients were lost of follow-up. Conclusion: Management guidelines of differentiated thyroid carcinomas are well established but not applicable to low- income country for several reasons. National guidelines, based on further researches, must then be implemented to improve our practice
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Humans , Poverty/economics , Thyroidectomy , Thyroid Neoplasms/complications , Retrospective Studies , Thyroid Cancer, Papillary/complicationsABSTRACT
Objectif de l'etude : Rapporter la frequence des complications des otites moyennes chroniques et presenter notre experience dans leur prise en charge. Materiel et methodes : Etude retrospective concernant la periode allant du 1er janvier 2000 au 31 decembre 2009. Les complications ont ete reparties en 2 grands groupes : extracraniennes et intracra-niennes. Resultats : 57 patients sur 350 recus pour OMC ont presente une complication; soit une frequence de 18;38 . Le cholesteatome etait le plus grand pourvoyeur de ces complications (84;2). Dix-neuf patients presentaient plus d'une complication; soit au total 76 cas. Les complications extracraniennes ont ete les plus frequentes; 63 cas (83); dominees par la mastoidite exteriorisee profuse (68;3). Les complications intracraniennes au nombre de 13 (17) etaient dominees par la meningite purulente otogene (46;2). La mastoidectomie associee a une antibiotherapie a large spectre; occupait une place im-portante dans la prise en charge de ces complications. Elle a ete realisee chez 45 patients (79). La mortalite a ete estimee a 3;5 (2 cas de deces). Un drainage neurochirurgical a ete effectue dans 4 cas (8;6). Conclusion : Cette etude se caracterise par un taux de complications d'OMC plus eleve que ceux rappor-tes dans la litterature; ainsi que par la predominance des formes etendues et des associations de complications chez un meme patient