Ortner’s Syndrome: Aortic Aneurysm as a Cause of Unilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis

• Main Authors: Dayang Corieza Febriany, Cindy Chin, Mohamed Arif Hameed Sultan, Anand Raj Thangavelu
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English; English
• 出版: Penerbit UMS 2023
• 主題: QM1-511 General; RA1-1270 Public aspects of medicine
• 在線閱讀: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/36781/1/ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/36781/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/36781/; https://doi.org/10.51200/bjms.v17i2.4341

Hoarseness is a symptom of Ortner’s syndrome, a rare disorder caused by mechanical left recurrent laryngeal nerve compression by enlarged cardiovascular structures. This is a case of Ortner’s syndrome in an elderly 74-year-old male with an aortic arch aneurysm presenting with hoarseness. We believe...