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A El May

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PubMed2006

[Thyroid carcinoma and Hashimoto thyroiditis].

OBJECTIVES: To study of the association between thyroid carcinoma and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT). MATERIAL AND METHODS: [corrected] Retrospective study of 78 patients undergoing surgery between 2001 and 2002, with a pathological diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. The clinical data and complementary tests performed before surgery are reported. RESULTS: The mean age was 44.6 years, with 77 females and only one male. There were 12 cases of thyroid cancer associated with HT, mostly with the nodular form, with 11 papillary carcinoma (14.1%) and one non-hodgkin B lymphoma of the thyroid. Tumor size varied from 4 to 60 mm with a mean of 26 mm. There was one microcancer (size<10 mm). CONCLUSIONS: We did not find an increased incidence of thyroid cancer associated with this highly selected population of HT patients.

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PubMed2005

Chronic iodine overload and apoptosis in cold nodules from endemic multinodular goiters.

As apoptosis and necrosis are known to exist during experimental goiter development and involution, we studied them in ten Tunisian multinodular endemic goiters, five of them having received a chronic excess of iodine during six months. Apoptotic thyrocyte nuclei have been counted on hematoxylin-eosin stained semi-thin sections. Using immunoperoxidase on paraffin sections, bcl-2 and bax immunoreactivities have been evidenced, and CD34 positive microvessels counted; ultra-thin sections have also been observed. After six months of iodine overload, apoptotic thyrocytes were ten times more numerous; CD34 positive endothelial cells were diminished by one half bcl-2 immunoreactivity disappeared in thyrocytes and a bax one appeared in thyroid follicular and endothelial cells. Presence of numerous apoptotic follicular and endothelial cells was confirmed using electron microscopy. Chronic iodine excess induces apoptosis and necrosis of thyroid follicular and endothelial cells, leading to thyroglobulin accumulation in connective tissue.

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PubMed2002

[Cervical lymph node involvement in carcinomas of the mobile tongue in Tunisia. Retrospective study of 135 cases].

OBJECTIVE: To report the profile of histologic cervical nodes involvement associated with mobile tongue squamous cell carcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Our retrospective study concerned patients treated from 1978 to 1998 by cervical neck dissection for mobile tongue carcinoma. RESULTS: A population of 135 patients (90 M/45 F, sex-ratio 2) with a 53.5 mean age (19 to 75) is analyzed. Clinical palpable nodes were present in 68 cases (50%) mainly submental-submaxillar (54). Histologic examination showed a node involvement in 54 cases without (32 cases) or with capsular rupture (22 cases) mainly in the jugulo-carotidian chain (46/54). Among the 67 clinically N0 patients collected after 1990, 22 patients (33%) exhibited an histological involvement vs 32/68 (47%) for the group presenting palpable cervical nodes for the whole period. Histologic node involvement seemed to be linked to the clinical status, node size and TNM stage. CONCLUSION: Cervical lymph node treatment needs to be systematic in mobile tongue carcinoma. The probability of histologic involvement is linked to the loco-regional extent of disease and influences the prognosis. In N0 patients, neck dissection is required because of the frequency of histological involvement, particularly when loss to follow-up may be expected.

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PubMed2001

[Primary sino-nasal lymphomas. Apropos of 25 cases].

PURPOSE: To report on the epidemiological and therapeutic features of a series of Tunisian patients treated for primitive sinonasal lymphoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Our retrospective study concerns patients with histologically proven primitive sinonasal lymphoma diagnosed and treated at our institution from 1975 to 1997. Initial work-up included: clinical plus ENT examination, WBC, ESR, LDH, abdominal ultrasonography, bone marrow biopsy and facial CT-scan taken since 1985. All slides are reviewed and reclassified using the Kiel system. Treatment is based on radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy (mainly with the CHOP protocol). RESULTS: We collected 25 patients (22 males and three females, sex-ratio = 7) with a mean age of 48 years (18 to 78). Mean delay of consultation is 4 months and patients consulted mainly for nasal obstruction (65%), more rarely epistaxis (40%) or rhinorrhea. ENT examination showed a fungating nasal fossa tumor in 20% of cases, predominantly unilateral (80%), associated to cervical nodes in 25% of cases. High-grade lymphomas represented 60% of the cases, and 60% of the patients were stage IE. All stage IEs have been treated by exclusive radiotherapy while more advanced stages received combined chemo- and radiotherapy (eight patients). The five-year actuarial survival rate was 69% for the whole population, with a better prognosis for localized stage and low-grade lymphomas. DISCUSSION: Radiotherapy remains a standard treatment for sinonasal lymphomas, permitting us to cure localized stages. In extended stages (more than IE), combined chemoradiotherapy seems to be a good option, especially in case of bulky tumors as observed for the other nodal and extra-nodal head and neck lymphomas.

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PubMed2001

Association between HLA-A/-B antigens and -DRB1 alleles and nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Tunisia.

Using serologic and molecular methods, 45 nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients were typed for HLA class I and class II and were compared to 100 unrelated normal Tunisians. Our results showed that the antigen frequency of HLA-B13 and allelic frequencies of DRB1*03, DRB1*15 were significantly higher in the NPC patients than in the control group (15.5 vs. 4; 26.4 vs. 11.5, and 14.4 vs. 6.5%, respectively) probably indicating a positive association with NPC. Moreover, we observed that HLA-A23 was absent in our NPC sample and was present in 18% of normal controls, and HLA-DRB1*11 was less frequent among the patients compared to the controls (5.5 vs. 14%) suggesting a protective effect of this association with NPC.

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PubMed2000

[Dermatomyositis and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: 3 cases].

BACKGROUND: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a common cancer in Tunisia with an estimated incidence of 1.8/100,000. The tumor shows a characteristic association with paraneoplastic syndromes. CASE REPORTS: We report three cases of histologically proven dermatomyositis associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in patients aged 40, 24 and 65 years. In all cases, the course of the paraneoplastic syndrome ran parallel to the nasopharyngeal carcinoma. DISCUSSION: Dermatomyositis is one of the numerous paraneoplastic syndromes associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Systematic examination of the nasopharynx is required in case of dermatomyositis.

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