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ArticleBiomedicines2022

Analysis of Risk Factors for Phonation Disorders after Thyroid Surgery.

Mateusz Głód, Dominik Marciniak, Krzysztof Kaliszewski, Krzysztof Sutkowski, Jerzy Rudnicki, Marek Bolanowski, Beata Wojtczak

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Article in Biomedicines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Surgical approaches to the management of the intrathoracic goiter - A systematic review.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mateusz GłódDepartment of General, Minimally Invasive and Endocrine Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska Street 213, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Dominik MarciniakDepartment of Dosage Form Technology, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska Street 211 A, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Krzysztof KaliszewskiDepartment of General, Minimally Invasive and Endocrine Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska Street 213, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-3291-5294
Krzysztof SutkowskiDepartment of General, Minimally Invasive and Endocrine Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska Street 213, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Jerzy RudnickiDepartment of General, Minimally Invasive and Endocrine Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska Street 213, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Marek BolanowskiDepartment of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Isotope Therapy, Wroclaw Medical University, Pasteura Street 4, 50-367 Wroclaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-2360-6596
Beata WojtczakDepartment of General, Minimally Invasive and Endocrine Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska Street 213, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Wroclaw Medical University · PL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phonation disorders after thyroidectomy are among the most common complications and occur as a result of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury. The multivariate analysis of risk factors for phonation disorders after thyroidectomy was assessed. A group of 830 patients with 1500 RLNs at risk of injury during thyroidectomy were analyzed retrospectively. The impact of the method of RLN identification, age, sex, BMI, kind of thyroid surgery, pathology, surgeon's experience and thyroid volume on vocal cord paralysis was analyzed. We found that the retrosternal goiter and the volume above 100 mL were the most important risk factors for both transient and permanent paralysis. Thyroid cancer had a statistically significant impact on the increase in permanent paralysis, while this indication had practically no impact on transient paralysis. Among patients over 65 years with obesity, the probability of transient complications approximately doubled, with no effect on the permanent paralysis. Men were approximately 1.7 times more likely to develop any type of phonation disorder. Secondary operations more than doubled the risk of transient and permanent vocal cord paralysis. Thyroidectomy with only visual RLN identification was associated with a risk of both transient and permanent vocal cord paralysis almost two times higher, compared to neuromonitoring.

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complicationsrisk factorsthyroid surgeryvocal cord paralysis

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PMID36140379
PMCPMC9496448
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