Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03079193
Post Thyroidectomy Endoscopic Laryngeal Examination :Is it Mandatory?
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 100 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Khamis Mushayt General Hospital · Other Government
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 12 Years – 75 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Post thyroidectomy laryngeal nerve injuries are frequently encountered specially in total and near total thyroidectomy some unilateral injuries are not clinically evident and asymptomatic. The aim of this study is to compare mandatory versus selective post-thyroidectomy endoscopic examination of larynx to detect laryngeal nerve injuries.
Detailed description
100 patients were randomly divided into two groups, group I for whom mandatory post thyroidectomy endoscopic laryngoscopic examination and the other group of only symptomatic patients selected for direct laryngoscopic examination.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2011-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-02-01
- Completion
- 2014-02-01
- First posted
- 2017-03-14
- Last updated
- 2017-03-14
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