• Anaesthesia · Dec 1998

    Case Reports

    General anaesthesia for thyroplasty.

    • M Griffin, J Russell, and F Chambers.
    • Department of Anaesthesia, Mater Misercordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
    • Anaesthesia. 1998 Dec 1; 53 (12): 1202-4.

    AbstractA new anaesthetic technique is described for thyroplasty. Thyroplasty was performed to restore the voice in unilateral vocal cord paralysis. After skin incision and dissection down to the larynx, a window was cut in the thyroid ala and a silastic wedge used to displace the vocal cord medially. The required size of this wedge was determined by pre-operative computerized tomography scanning of the larynx. At this point the patient had to be awake and cooperative to allow repeated phonation to facilitate correct displacement of the vocal cord.

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