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Unusual cause of bilateral vocal cord paralysis
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Unusual cause of bilateral vocal cord paralysis

Wm Hajjar, Ha Alshalan, Ma Alsowayyan, Sa Al-Nassar and Sami A. Al-nassar
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia, Vol.10(4), pp.459-461
01/10/2016
PMCID: PMC5044737
PMID: 27833496

Abstract

Anesthesiology Case Report Hoarseness of voice tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenopathy 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 tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenopathy causing bilateral VCP in a young female patient.
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