• Laura Samarà, Josep Valls-Sole, and Miguel Caballero.
• Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Department, University of Barcelona, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS-Augusto Pi Sunyer Institute for Biomedical Research, Barcelona, Spain.
• Head Neck. 2013 Jul 1;35(7):E229-30.

BackgroundParsonage-Turner syndrome is a rare and painful peripheral neuropathy that usually presents as brachial plexus neuritis and also has other nerve involvement.Methods And ResultsHerein, we report the case of a patient with right recurrent nerve palsy as the first clinically isolated manifestation of underlying Parsonage-Turner syndrome. Idiopathic dysphonia was the only symptom presenting during a week for a patient that later developed a more conventional neurological deficit in her right shoulder.ConclusionsThe case illustrates the need for a careful clinical-neurologic examination beyond the larynx in patients presenting with idiopathic dysphonia. Parsonage-Turner syndrome should be considered as one of the rare causes in the differential diagnosis of isolated and otherwise unexplained dysphonia.Copyright © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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