[Management of recurrent post thyroidectomy abductor vocal cord paralysis at the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department of the Dakar University Teaching Hospital: report of 14 cases].

: Latrogenic injury of the recurrent laryngeal nerve is a serious accident in the thyroid gland surgery. Bilateral losses of the abduction of the larynx, occurring during thyroidectomy, determine several dyspneas which often necessitate emergency tracheostomy. In second hand, 14 patients, who had undergone thyroidectomy, were admitted in the Ear, Nose and throat departement of Dakar university hospital with bilateral abductor vocal cord paralysis. Material consits of 12 women and 2 men. They were aged between 15 and 58 years old. Clinically, laryngeal dyspnea was noticed for all the patients and, emergency tracheostomy was performed for 10 patients (71,42%). Bilateral abductor vocal cord paralysis occurred after total or subtotal thyroidectomy in 12 cases. In the most cases (71,42%), the treatment was carried out, with arytenoidopexy, by extralaryngeal route. Successful results were noticed for 11 cases (78,6%) and decanulation was realised between 2 to 26 days after procedure operative. If results were satisfied for respiration, voice quality was bad.