title: Vocal cord palsy anatomical changes and a foreign body mimicking malignancy.
abstract: A 74-year-old woman presented with a history of prolonged dysphonia, a red flag symptom for laryngeal cancer. Flexible nasal endoscopy revealed a lesion which looked suspicious for malignancy and therefore she went onto have a microlaryngoscopy and an attempt at biopsy. It was during this procedure that a foreign body was removed whole from a dilated laryngeal ventricle. We believe that some subtle anatomical changes caused by a pre-existing unilateral vocal cord palsy contributed to the impaction of this foreign body.
authors: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK.
authors: Helen
authors: H
authors: Turner
authors: Department of ENT, Oxford Deanery, Milton Keynes, UK.
authors: Ali
authors: A
authors: Qureishi
authors: Department of ENT, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK.
authors: Priy
authors: P
authors: Silva
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007828:Laryngoscopy; D007830:Larynx; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014826:Vocal Cord Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*