title: [A rare late complication of radiation therapy: bilaterally recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis].
abstract: Peripheral neuropathy is a late complication of radiation therapy, which is least and probably threatening. As it occurs many years after the remission is achieved with a usually irreversible clinical presentation, it significantly increases morbidity in cancer survivors and has an adverse effect on the quality of life. In this article, we report a 39-year-old male patient of bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis which developed eight years after the treatment of stage T1b glottic laryngeal carcinoma with primary radiation therapy and was treated by transverse laser cordotomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Medicine Faculty of İstanbul University, 34390 Fatih, İstanbul, Turkey. bbasaran@istanbul.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Bora
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Başaran
authors.forename: Selin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ünsaler
authors.forename: K Serkan
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Orhan
authors.forename: Ö Erkan
authors.initials: ÖE
authors.lastname: Kıyak
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005931:Glottis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D011832:Radiation Injuries; D012009:Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve / Q000528:radiation effects*; D014826:Vocal Cord Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology