title: A series of thyroplasty cases under general anaesthesia.
abstract: Thyroplasty is an operation on the upper airway to improve voice quality in patients with unilateral vocal cord paralysis. It requires access to an uninstrumented larynx and a functional assessment of vocal cord medialization. It is a difficult anaesthetic procedure that requires sharing the airway with the surgeon. We describe an anaesthetic technique to give good operating conditions and a safe airway, using total intravenous anaesthesia, a laryngeal mask airway and intraoperative fibreoptic endoscopic assessment of the larynx, and present a series of 13 patients. Other anaesthetic techniques for thyroplasty are described and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Razzaq
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wooldridge
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods*; D000771:Anesthesia, Intravenous / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006801:Humans; D017214:Laryngeal Masks; D007828:Laryngoscopy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013957:Thyroid Cartilage / Q000601:surgery*; D014826:Vocal Cord Paralysis / Q000601:surgery*