https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/587135
標題: | Transcutaneous ultrasound for evaluation of vocal fold movement in patients with thyroid disease | 作者: | CHENG-PING WANG TSENG-CHENG CHEN TSUNG-LIN YANG Chun-Nan Chen Lin C.-F. PEI-JEN LOU Hu Y.-L. MING-JIUM SHIEH FON-JOU HSIEH Hsiao T.-Y. JENG-YUH KO |
公開日期: | 2012 | 卷: | 81 | 期: | 3 | 起(迄)頁: | e288-e291 | 來源出版物: | European Journal of Radiology | 摘要: | Background: Preoperative evaluation of recurrent laryngeal nerve function is important in the context of thyroid surgery. Transcutaneous ultrasound may be useful to visualize vocal fold movement when evaluating thyroid disease. Methods: A 7-18 MHz linear array transducer was placed transversely on the midline of the thyroid cartilage at the anterior neck of patients with thyroid disease. The gray-scale technique was used, with the scan setting for the thyroid gland. Results: Between August 2008 and March 2010, 705 patients, including 672 patients with normal vocal fold movement and 33 patients with vocal fold paralysis were enrolled. They included 159 male and 546 female patients. Their ages ranged from 10 to 88 years. Vocal fold movement could be seen by ultrasound in 614 (87%) patients, including 589 (88%) patients with normal vocal fold movement and 25 (76%) patients with vocal fold paralysis (p = 0.06). The mean age of patients with visible and invisible vocal fold movement was 46.6 and 57.9 years old, respectively (p = 0.001). Ultrasound was able to see vocal fold movement in 533 (98%) female patients but only in 81 (51%) male patients (p = 0.001). Among the patients with vocal fold paralysis, ultrasound revealed palsied vocal folds in 17 of 18 (94%) female patients but in only 8 of 15 (53%) male patients (p = 0.01). Conclusion: Transcutaneous ultrasound represents an alternative tool to evaluate vocal fold movement for more than 85% of patients with thyroid disease, including more than 90% of female patients and about half of male patients. ? 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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ISSN: | 0720-048X | DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.09.020 | SDG/關鍵字: | adolescent; adult; aged; article; child; clinical evaluation; echography; female; Gray scale echography; human; larynx cartilage; major clinical study; male; movement (physiology); priority journal; school child; sex difference; thyroid disease; transcutaneous ultrasonography; transducer; vocal cord; vocal cord paralysis; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Child; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve; Thyroid Diseases; Transducers; Vocal Cord Paralysis; Vocal Cords |
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