Systematic Evaluation of Vocal Cord Function is Critical for Thyroid Cancer Patients: A Patient of Left Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with Left Vocal Cord Paralysis

Aortic aneurysm presenting with left vocal cord paralysis.

A 60-year-old man with diabetes presented to hospital with gradual onset hoarseness of 7 months duration. He was a smoker for the last 30 years and did not have any other symptoms such as cough, dyspnea or weight loss. Physical examination showed a normal pulse and blood pressure. Indirect laryngoscopy revealed a paralyzed left vocal cord in paramedian position (Picture 1). A chest X-ray showed...

Multiple primary laryngotracheal adenoid cystic and left thyroid follicular carcinoma with right vocal cord paralysis: the crucial role of surgery.

BACKGROUND Primary tracheal tumors are rare, accounting for only 0.2% of all thoracic cancers. Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) diagnosed in the trachea is very uncommon and its coexistence with second histologically distinct malignant tumors of he neck region has never been reported. SUMMARY We now report a case of multiple primary laryngotracheal ACC and thyroid follicular carcinoma surgicall...

Left vocal cord paralysis and dysphagia in mitral valve disease.

Two cases of severe mitral stenosis with both hoarseness, caused by left vocal cord palsy, and dysphagia are described. This combination in the same patient has not, to our knowledge, been previously described. Previous studies have firmly established that vocal cord paralysis in mitral stenosis is a result of compression of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve as it passes around the aortic arch...

Tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenopathy can cause left vocal cord paralysis.

Left Vocal Cord Paralysis Detected by PET/CT in a Case of Lung Cancer

We report a patient with lung cancer. The first PET/CT imaging revealed hypermetabolic mass in the left aortopulmonary region and hypermetabolic nodule in the anterior segment of the upper lobe of the left lung. After completing chemotherapy and radiotherapy against the primary mass in the left lung, the patient underwent a second PET/CT examination for evaluation of treatment response. This te...