Partial Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Paralysis or Paresis? In Search for the Accurate Diagnosis

“Partial paralysis” of the larynx is a term often used to describe a hypomobile vocal fold as is the term “paresis.” We present a case of a dysphonic patient with a mobility disorder of the vocal fold, for whom idiopathic “partial paralysis” was the diagnosis made after laryngeal electromyography, a...

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Autores principales: Delides, Alexander, Kokotis, Panagiotis, Maragoudakis, Pavlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26236524
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/351704
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description “Partial paralysis” of the larynx is a term often used to describe a hypomobile vocal fold as is the term “paresis.” We present a case of a dysphonic patient with a mobility disorder of the vocal fold, for whom idiopathic “partial paralysis” was the diagnosis made after laryngeal electromyography, and discuss a proposition for a different implementation of the term.
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spelling pubmed-45069142015-08-02 Partial Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Paralysis or Paresis? In Search for the Accurate Diagnosis Delides, Alexander Kokotis, Panagiotis Maragoudakis, Pavlos Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report “Partial paralysis” of the larynx is a term often used to describe a hypomobile vocal fold as is the term “paresis.” We present a case of a dysphonic patient with a mobility disorder of the vocal fold, for whom idiopathic “partial paralysis” was the diagnosis made after laryngeal electromyography, and discuss a proposition for a different implementation of the term. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4506914/ /pubmed/26236524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/351704 Text en Copyright © 2015 Alexander Delides et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26236524
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