Abdullahi Musa Kirfi Author

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Endoscopic assisted Lateropexy for Bilateral Abductor Paralysis in a Low Resource Setting: Report of two cases from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa university teaching hospital Bauchi

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Abdullahi Musa Kirfi

Human larynx plays a vital role in phonation, breathing, airway protection, and generate high intra-thoracic pressure for coughing and lifting objects. Injury to the vagus nerve or recurrent laryngeal nerve results in vocal fold paralysis. There are several causes of vocal fold paralysis reported in the literature, which include: thyroidectomy, benign and malignant thyroid diseases, oesophageal carcinoma, neck trauma, bronchogenic cancer, aortic aneurysm, intra-thoracic surgery, idiopathic and congenital vocal cord paralysis. Management of vocal paralysis is surgical, the surgical approaches evolved from open to endoscopic procedures. A 37 year old woman who presented with progressive difficulty with breathing following thyroidectomy she had two years ago for a benign thyroid lesion. Th... view more»

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