Journal Reviews

What blood tests should be requested to investigate vocal cord paralysis?

1 July 2017 | | Blood tests, Dysphonia, Hoarseness, Laboratory tests, Vocal fold paralysis, Work-up for dysphonia

Patients who are discovered to have a vocal cord palsy with no obvious cause on history or examination routinely undergo investigations to exclude an underlying pathology. Cross-sectional imaging of the relevant recurrent laryngeal nerve is required, but considerable variability has...