Voice Improvement After Thyroid Surgery

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.220206.032How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hoarseness; Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve; Thyroidectomy; vocal cord paralysis

Abstract

Patients with enlarged thyroid gland (goiter) that cause paralysis of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) or hoarseness usually have associated with thyroid malignancy. Malignancy can be directly or indirectly related to RLN. Cases of vocal cord paralysis associated with benign thyroid disease or goitre are rare. As an objective, we present a case of a woman with hoarseness who is known to have left vocal cord paralysis which is suspected to be closely related to her thyroid disease (adenomatous goiter). As a method, this patient underwent a thyroid procedure (left isthmolobectomy) to see if her hoarse voice could decrease or disappear. As a result, after the thyroid procedure, there was improvement or disappearance of the hoarse voice. It is strongly suspected that the thyroid lesion suppressed the RLN resulting in impaired vocal cord movement or paralysis and causing hoarseness. In conclusion, thyroid procedure can be recommended to treat hoarse voice which is influenced by disturbance of vocal cord movement due to compression of thyroid lesion to RLN.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.

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AU  - Edo Wira Candra
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/02/21
TI  - Voice Improvement After Thyroid Surgery
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Global Health and Innovation in conjunction with 6th ORL Head and Neck Oncology Conference (ORLHN 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 167
EP  - 171
SN  - 2468-5739
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