[Treatment for benign thyroid nodules with hoarseness as primary symptom].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of operation on Benign thyroid nodules with hoarseness as primary symptom.

METHOD: Twelve patients were underwent the operation of subtotal thyroidectomy and exposing of recurrent laryngeal nerve. We evaluating the effect by fibrolaryngoscope and voice acoustic analysis before and after operation.

RESULT: All the 12 patients underwent surgery successfully. The hoarseness improved obviously and vocal cords were reactivate. Jitter, shimmer and dysphonia severity index showed significant difference pre and one month after surgery.

CONCLUSION: Benign thyroid nodules could also cause vocal cord paralysis and hoarseness, the effect can be satisfying by subtotal thyroidectomy and exposing of recurrent laryngeal nerve if it can be early diagnosed.