갑상선절제술 후 경부불편감

초록

Thyroid and parathyroid surgery is commonly performed for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes for benign tumorsas well as malignant tumors. Vocal cord paralysis and hypoparathyroidism are known as major complications. However, majority of patients experience neck pain or discomfort after surgery without any significant cause. Recent studies have reported various and ambiguous symptoms group after thyroidectomy as post-thyroidsyndrome. There is still controversy over the etiology of post-thyroidectomy syndrome, however the assumablecauses identified so far are damage to the laryngeal mucosa caused by tracheal intubation, disturbances of bloodcirculation of larynx, synechia of strap muscles, limited vertical motion of laryngeal skeleton, fibrosis during healingprocess of extrinsic laryngeal muscles. This is the systematic review of the post-thyroidectomy symptoms by cause.

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