ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2026
Post-thyroidectomy anterior neck dysfunction: clinical phenotypes, mechanisms, and comprehensive management.
Review in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Thyroid surgery is generally safe; however, satisfactory postoperative recovery is not determined solely by traditional complications such as recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, bleeding, or hypocalcemia. A subset of patients develop interrelated symptoms-including voice changes, swallowing discomfort, anterior neck pain or tightness, restricted cervical mobility, and sensory abnormalities-that are considered here within a proposed framework of post-thyroidectomy anterior neck dysfunction. In this review, the term is used as a working conceptual framework rather than a formally established diagnostic entity. Plausible mechanisms include neural injury, anterior neck muscle injury, restricted laryngotracheal motion, adhesion and fibrosis, and altered sensory input. Using a structured narrative synthesis of the available literature, we summarize the clinical phenotypes, natural history, potential mechanisms, risk factors, assessment tools, and prevention and treatment strategies relevant to this framework.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.