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Voice Change Due to Paratracheal Air Cysts

Paratracheal air cysts are a rare entity in which cystic formation occurs adjacent to the trachea. Most patients with paratracheal air cysts are asymptomatic, and the cysts are detected incidentally on chest radiograph or computed tomography (CT) scan. Most symptomatic patients complain of pulmonary...

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Autores principales: Rhee, Youn Ju, Han, Sung Joon, Chong, Yoo Young, Cho, Hyun Jin, Kang, Shin Kwang, Lee, Choong-Sik, Kang, Min-Woong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27525245
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2016.49.4.313
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author Rhee, Youn Ju
Han, Sung Joon
Chong, Yoo Young
Cho, Hyun Jin
Kang, Shin Kwang
Lee, Choong-Sik
Kang, Min-Woong
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description Paratracheal air cysts are a rare entity in which cystic formation occurs adjacent to the trachea. Most patients with paratracheal air cysts are asymptomatic, and the cysts are detected incidentally on chest radiograph or computed tomography (CT) scan. Most symptomatic patients complain of pulmonary symptoms or repeated respiratory infection. Rarely, the air cysts can lead to paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve as a result of direct compression. We report a case of a 59-year-old male patient who presented with voice change, and the cause was identified as paratracheal air cysts on a chest CT scan. Surgical resection via video-assisted mediastinoscopy was performed, and the voice recovered immediately after the operation.
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spelling pubmed-49812382016-08-12 Voice Change Due to Paratracheal Air Cysts Rhee, Youn Ju Han, Sung Joon Chong, Yoo Young Cho, Hyun Jin Kang, Shin Kwang Lee, Choong-Sik Kang, Min-Woong Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Paratracheal air cysts are a rare entity in which cystic formation occurs adjacent to the trachea. Most patients with paratracheal air cysts are asymptomatic, and the cysts are detected incidentally on chest radiograph or computed tomography (CT) scan. Most symptomatic patients complain of pulmonary symptoms or repeated respiratory infection. Rarely, the air cysts can lead to paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve as a result of direct compression. We report a case of a 59-year-old male patient who presented with voice change, and the cause was identified as paratracheal air cysts on a chest CT scan. Surgical resection via video-assisted mediastinoscopy was performed, and the voice recovered immediately after the operation. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016-08 2016-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4981238/ /pubmed/27525245 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2016.49.4.313 Text en Copyright © 2016 by The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights Reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rhee, Youn Ju
Han, Sung Joon
Chong, Yoo Young
Cho, Hyun Jin
Kang, Shin Kwang
Lee, Choong-Sik
Kang, Min-Woong
Voice Change Due to Paratracheal Air Cysts
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title_full Voice Change Due to Paratracheal Air Cysts
title_fullStr Voice Change Due to Paratracheal Air Cysts
title_full_unstemmed Voice Change Due to Paratracheal Air Cysts
title_short Voice Change Due to Paratracheal Air Cysts
title_sort voice change due to paratracheal air cysts
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27525245
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2016.49.4.313
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