The purpose of this study is to present epidemiological, clinical, radiological, histological characteristics and treatment of laryngeal tuberculosis. It is also aimed at making the point about diagnosis difficulties. This retrospective study was conducted over three years; it concerned 4 cases, 3 males and one female.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCervical lymph node tuberculosis is a public health problem in Morocco and the rest of the world. Its paucibacillary nature makes diagnosis and treatment difficult. This is a descriptive-analytical retrospective study presenting 104 cases of patients with manifestations of cervical lymph node tuberculosis confirmed by pathological examination (100%), associated in some cases with positive bacteriology (40.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
June 2023
Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is an uncommon benign and self-limited condition characterized mainly by fever and lymphadenopathy. It rarely presents with life-threatening symptoms. Our paper reports the case of a 32 years-old woman who presented with acute laryngeal dyspnea and important neck-swelling, that later proved to be secondary to KFD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Type 1 tympanoplasty (myringoplasty) is the surgical closure of a perforated eardrum. Its purpose is to restore the integrity of the tympanic membrane and to improve hearing in the affected ear. Nowadays, we note the increasing use of cartilage as material for the reconstruction of the tympanic membrane.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Neurofibromatoses are a rare group of autosomal dominant tumor suppressor phacomatoses syndromes. Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1 or Von Recklinghausen's disease) is the most commonly found type of neurofibromatosis, and constitutes the most commonly found autosomal dominant disease of the nervous system.
Case Presentation: We report a case of a 14-year-old boy who reported a 3-year-history of a slowly enlarging right lateral cervical mass.
Introduction: Parathyroid carcinoma (PC) is considered a rare and uncommon malignancy. Its prevalence is about 0.005% of all cancers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCompressive goitre is a public health emergency due to the risk of asphyxia caused by compression of bronchial tree. We report the case of a 48-year-old female patient presenting to the emergency department with laryngeal dyspnea due to compressive goitre. We conducted a study and a literature review focusing on the clinical and radiological features of compressive goitre and different treatment options.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEar shingles, also called herpes zoster oticus, are a viral infection of the outer, middle and/or inner ear due to varicella zoster virus (VZV). Patients with ear involvement associated with facial palsy are clinically diagnosed with Ramsay-Hunt´s syndrome. We here report the case of a 25-year-old patient with herpes zoster oticus associated with peripheral facial palsy, without other associated signs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSinonasal malignant melanoma is a rare but aggressive tumor of the head and neck area. It has a poor prognosis. Common symptoms are nasal obstruction, epistaxis, or purulent rhinorrhea.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Burkitt lymphoma is a form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in which cancer starts in immune cells called B-cells. Recognized as a fast-growing human tumor, it is considered as a medical emergency requiring immediate diagnostic and therapeutic intervention. However, intensive chemotherapy can achieve long-term survival in more than half the people with Burkitt lymphoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLipoma is the most common of soft tissue tumours. It rarely occurs in the head and neck. Patients with fast-growing large sized lesion (> 10cm) should be suspected to have a cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Surg Case Rep
August 2021
Introduction: Cavernous hemangioma is a venous malformation that occurs throughout the entire body but is rarely localized in internal jugular vein, to the best of our knowledge our case is the first case reported in the literature.
Case Report: We report a case of internal jugular vein cavernous hemangioma in a 62-year-old woman and review the literature concerning the clinical features, radiological appearance, histopathological findings and treatment options.
Discussion: Internal jugular vein cavernous hemangioma, is a very rare tumor composed of large dilated blood vessels and containing large blood-filled spaces.
SARS-CoV-2 is an infection due to a novel virus belonging to the coronavirus family. Since December 2019, first human cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Wuhan (China) and rapidly has been progressed to a global pandemic declared by the world health organization (WHO) on March 11 2020. The major complication of COVID-19, is pneumonia, but other presentations like cardiovascular and neurological complications have been reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParotid branchial cysts are rare and poorly known congenital malformations of the first branchial cleft. They are characterized by three types of manifestations which may be associated to it or isolated, including inflammatory swelling of the subauricular and inferior portion of the parotid with or without cervico-cutaneous fistula projecting into the cervico-mandibular area and a fistula in the floor of the external auditory canal with or without otorrhea, with or without pretimpanic bridle on otoscopy. They often go unnoticed, except for superinfections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground Healthcare workers in frontline during the coronavirus 19 disease (COVID-19) pandemic are mandated to wear specific personal protective equipment (PPE) including high filtrating masks and/or eye protection during extended period of time. Compressive headaches secondary to PPE use including N95 masks have been reported. We aim to describe subtypes of headache related to PPE use in our hospital in Casablanca and working condition factors associated with it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCase Rep Otolaryngol
October 2020
The temporal bone is often affected in basilar skull fractures. Fractures involving the petrous portion are particularly significant, as they may be associated with neurovascular sequelae. Bilateral facial paralysis secondary to bilateral temporal bone fracture is a rare clinical entity, even more so when associated with other cranial nerve damage such as abducens nerve paralysis and hearing impairment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe tympanostomy tube insertion is the gold standard of treatment for secretory otitis media. Complications are associated with this surgery in 17% of cases. One of the rare but real complications is the medial migration of the tympanostomy tube.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThyroid surgery requires a thorough knowledge of cervical anatomy and anatomical variations, in particular of the lower laryngeal nerve, in order to avoid iatrogenic lesions. The objective of our study was to analyze the relationships of the lower laryngeal nerve, the existence of branches of nerve division and a subjective appreciation of the size of the nerve. This is a prospective study of 1 year including 60 patients who underwent thyroidectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmygdaloid cysts are benign dysembryologic cystic tumors developing in the anterolateral portion of the neck. They account for 2% of all neck tumors located in the laterocervical region. They mostly result from branchial cleft abnormalities, accounting for 6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExtra-nodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type, is a rare form of malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. It poses a diagnostic problem due to nonspecific symptoms. We report a case of NK/T-cell lymphoma simulating orbital cellulitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThoracic Outlet Syndrome (NTOS) encloses the whole set of clinical manifestations associated with the compression of the trunks of the brachial plexus and/or of the subclavian vessels as they cross the thoracic outlet (cervico-thoraco-brachial junction). It rarely affects children. We here report the case of a young girl treated for neurologic NTOS caused by supernumerary cervical rib.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPartial laryngectomy with either cricohyoidoepiglottopexy (CHEP) are mainly used to treat glottic cancers becuse they ensure a satisfactory preservation of physiological functions and satisfactory local carcinologic control. Our study aimed to analyze the functional and carcinologic results of this surgical technique. We conducted a retrospective study of patients undergoing partial laryngectomy with either cricohyoidoepiglottopexy in our Hospital between 2011 and 2014.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParathyroid carcinoma is a very rare malignancy responsible for 0.4 to 5.2% of hyperparathyroidism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLaryngeal cancer metastases are relatively rare and mainly affect the lung. The medullary localization remains exceptional. We report the case of a patient followed for operated laryngeal cancer and whose oncologic control revealed a medullary localization.
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