Post Thyroidectomy Endoscopic Laryngeal Examination :Is it Mandatory?

Khamis Mushayt General Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thyroid

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03079193

khamisMGH WA1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Post thyroidectomy laryngeal nerve injuries are frequently encountered specially in total and near total thyroidectomy some unilateral injuries are not clinically evident and asymptomatic.

The aim of this study is to compare mandatory versus selective post-thyroidectomy endoscopic examination of larynx to detect laryngeal nerve injuries.

Full description

100 patients were randomly divided into two groups, group I for whom mandatory post thyroidectomy endoscopic laryngoscopic examination and the other group of only symptomatic patients selected for direct laryngoscopic examination.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all post thyroidectomy patients

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

videoscopic laryngeal examination

Description:

50 patients post thyroidectomy will do mandatory post thyroidectomy videoscopic examination of the larynx

No vedioscopic larygeoscopic examination

Description:

50 patients post thyroidectomy will be followed up and will not do vedeoscopic videoscopic laryngeal examination routinely they will do it if indicated