Unusual cause of bilateral vocal cord paralysis

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 tubercu...

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Autores principales: Hajjar, WM, AlShalan, HA, Alsowayyan, MA, Al-Nassar, SA
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27833496
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.177323
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-50447372016-11-11 Unusual cause of bilateral vocal cord paralysis Hajjar, WM AlShalan, HA Alsowayyan, MA Al-Nassar, SA Saudi J Anaesth Case Report 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5044737/ /pubmed/27833496 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.177323 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Unusual cause of bilateral vocal cord paralysis
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title_fullStr Unusual cause of bilateral vocal cord paralysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044737/
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