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A 67-year-old woman presented with recurrent nodular goiter with hyperthyroidism with a history of having had a subtotal thyroidectomy in 1997 and redo-completion surgery in 2002. Preoperative nasoendoscopy revealed normally functioning cords and her thyroid function tests showed subclinical hyperthyroidism at the time of surgery. Computed tomography (CT) of the neck showed a large compressive goiter with an aberrant right subclavian artery (Fig. 1a, b). This raised the possibility of a nonrecurrent laryngeal nerve (NRLN).
Rajeev Parameswaran is the lead author of this chapter.
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Agarwal, A., Fernando, R., Parameswaran, R., Mishra, A., Pradhan, R. (2023). Stridor Following Thyroidectomy. In: Case Studies in Thyroid and Parathyroid Tumors. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0938-4_64
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