Table 2.
The Types of Surgery and Characteristics of VCP
| Surgery | Unilateral (n = 40) |
Bilateral (n = 3) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Right (n = 18) | Left (n = 22) | ||
| Brain | 1 | 3 | |
| Neck | |||
| Cervical spine (anterior approach) | 6 | 2 | |
| Total thyroidectomy | 1 | 3 | |
| Right parathyroidectomy | 1 | ||
| Thorax | |||
| Esophageal cancer | 1 | ||
| Right Mediastinal mass | 1 | ||
| Left Mediastinal mass | 1 | ||
| Left pneumothorax | 1 | ||
| Left pneumonectomy | 1 | ||
| Thoracic spine (posterior approach) | 1 | ||
| Upper limbs | |||
| Right clavicle | 3 | ||
| Left clavicle | 1 | ||
| Right upper arm | 3 | ||
| Left upper arm | 3 | 1 | |
| Right lower arm | 1 | ||
| Abdomen | |||
| Laparoscopic surgery | 1 | ||
| Open surgery | 4 | 3 | |
Values are presented as number. VCP: vocal cord paralysis, Unilateral: one-sided VCP, Bilateral: both sides VCP, Right: right sided VCP, Left: left sided VCP.