Unilateral vocal cord paralysis due to anatomical variation of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury during thyroid surgery: how to manage?

• Main Authors: Nur Izzati Ishak, M.M. Baki, R. Muhammad
• 格式: Proceedings
• 语言: English; English
• 出版: 2020
• 主题: R Medicine (General); RD Surgery
• 在线阅读: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21839/1/Unilateral%20vocal%20cord%20paralysis%20due%20to%20anatomical%20variation%20of%20recurrent%20laryngeal%20nerve%20injury%20during%20thyroid%20surgery.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21839/2/Unilateral%20vocal%20cord%20paralysis%20due%20to%20anatomical%20variation%20of%20recurrent%20laryngeal%20nerve%20injury%20during%20thyroid%20surgery1.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21839/; https://www.ums.edu.my/fssa/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/PROCEEDINGS-BOOK-ST-2020-e-ISSN.pdf

A case of hoarseness and fluid aspirations immediate post thyroid surgery in a 74-year-old female is reported. She has multinodular goitre and underwent total thyroidectomy and there was sudden loss of nerve monitoring signal intraoperatively during dissection of the respective thyroid pole. Further...