Voice outcomes following two different steps during thyroidectomy
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
symptomatic benign and malignant thyroid nodules who require total thyroidectomy as per ATA guidelines.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients not willing to participate in the study.
2. Patients who have pre and/or post op recurrent/ superior laryngeal nerve palsy.
3.Patients diagnosed with benign vocal fold lesions like vocal cord nodule, polyps, cysts and neuromuscular disorders which can independently affect voice.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Objective analysis- as per SRIHER voice evaluation proforma, <br/ ><br>a.Stroboscopy(vibratory and non-vibratory portion) <br/ ><br>b.acoustic analysis (Frequency, intensity, jitter, shimmer, DSI) and <br/ ><br>c.aerodynamic measures (MPT) <br/ ><br>Timepoint: before and a month after surgery
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method subjective analysis of voice (GRBAS scale )Timepoint: before and after surgery