A 48 year old female attended the emergency department with complaints of cough, breathing difficulty, and flu-like symptoms for one day. She suffers from hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN) Type Ia, which had been detected by isolating DNA from a blood sample for the presence of duplication on Chromosome 17. She had been treated for asthma for two years and had a history of nocturna...

Vocal cords paralysis is not a rare entity and is usually caused by malignant thyroid tomors, and major thyroid & neck surgeries, nontheless it has some unusual and even idiopathic causes as well. This is a report of a case with the primary tuberculosis of thyroid gland which has been confirmed both pathologicaly and microbiologically. The lesion was on the same side of paralysis and had advanc...

A 47-year-old man was transferred from another clinic with a one year history of progressive dyspnea that had recently deteriorated. He was a heavy drinker (1 bottle of whisky/day) and smoker (1 pack/day). On the direct laryngoscopy, polypoid masses with smooth surfaces were found involving both the true and false vocal folds (Fig. 1A). We suspected the man was suffering from vocal cord carcino...