Tapia syndrome is a rare entity characterized by unilateral paralysis of the tongue and vocal cord caused by X(th) and XII(th) cranial nerve lesions. However, there has been no report of Tapia syndrome immediately following spine surgery. A 47-year-old man underwent posterior decompressive laminectomy for cervical stenosis. The surgery took about 117 minutes and it was uneventful. Postoperative...

BACKGROUND Indirect laryngoscopy (IDL) is often performed prior to thyroid surgery to detect pre-existing vocal cord pathology. METHODS A retrospective chart review of 201 patients undergoing thyroid surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital was undertaken in order to study the patterns of pre-operative and postoperative voice changes and IDL findings. RESULTS A total of 9% of patients had pr...

INTRODUCTION One of the most widely accepted surgical technique for improving unilateral vocal cord palsy is the medialization thyropflasty. Adequate placement of the prosthesis is essential for optimal results. Some authors have developed mathematical models to estimate the position of the vocal cord, which can provide an idea of its location, but these models are unreliable due to inter-indiv...

Objectives: The present study aims to compare acoustic voice parameters in patients with vocal cord nodules, polyps, and normal subjects.  Methods: In this cross-sectional case-control study, the participants were selected by convenience sampling, including 30 patients with vocal polyps group, 38 patients with vocal nodules for the second group, and 42 participants without voice pathologies a...

Ortner's Syndrome is a rare clinical entity, first described in 1897.1 It describes left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy resulting from identifiable cardiovascular disease. For this reason it is also known as cardiovocal syndrome.2 The various underlying conditions includes mitral stenosis, septal defect, mitral valve prolapse and aortic aneurysm.3 4'5 We present a case of left vocal cord paral...

Tapia's syndrome is the palsy of the 10th and 12th cranial nerves, resulting in ipsilateral paralysis of the vocal cord and tongue. It is a rare complication which is related to the anesthetic airway management and positioning of the patient's head during the surgery. We describe a patient with a postoperative unilateral Tapia's syndrome, after general anesthesia, with uncomplicated endotrachea...

Abstract Case Presentation A 61-year-old gentleman with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia presented right sided disseminated vesicles, otalgia, hearing loss, facial weakness, dysphagia, hoarseness, breathlessness, and stridor. In the preceding 48 hours he had two A&E presentations only throat tightness mild breathlessness. Cranial nerve (CN) examination demonstrated cheek numbness absent jaw je...

introduction: unilateral vocal cord paralysis (uvcp) is not an uncommon finding. several procedures are available to manage glottal insufficiency. we conducted a clinical trial to evaluate the outcome of fat injection laryngoplasty.   materials and methods: liposuctioned lower abdomen fat was injected for augmentation of paralyzed vocal cord in 20 patients with uvcp. autologous fat was harveste...

introduction: actinomycosis is a systemic chronic bacterial infection caused by actinomyces israelii, an anaerobic organism normally resident in the human mouth. however, the actinomycosis of the larynx is very rare, and only about 15 cases have been reported in the literature so far. most of the cases reported occurred in patients who had previously undergone radiotherapy for laryngeal cancer....