Unusual cause of bilateral vocal cord paralysis.
| Autor: | Hajjar WM; Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia., AlShalan HA; Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia., Alsowayyan MA; Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia., Al-Nassar SA; Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Saudi journal of anaesthesia [Saudi J Anaesth] 2016 Oct-Dec; Vol. 10 (4), pp. 459-461. |
| DOI: | 10.4103/1658-354X.177323 |
| Abstrakt: | The most common cause of vocal cord paralysis (VCP) as a result of recurrent laryngeal nerve compression is malignant tumors. A benign and inflammatory causes of VCP is rarely reported in the literature, and in almost all reported cases it was a unilateral paralysis. We report a rare case of tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenopathy causing bilateral VCP in a young female patient. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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