PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - S.A. Ng
AU  - I. Corcuera-Solano
AU  - V.V. Gurudutt
AU  - P.M. Som
TI  - A Rare Case of Reidel Thyroiditis with Associated Vocal Cord Paralysis: CT and MR Imaging Features
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A2406
DP  - 2011 Dec 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - E201--E202
VI  - 32
IP  - 11
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/32/11/E201.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/32/11/E201.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2011 Dec 01; 32
AB  - SUMMARY: Reidel thyroiditis is extremely rare and not only involves the thyroid gland but usually extends to neighboring structures in the neck. A rare complication of this disease is entrapment of the recurrent laryngeal nerve causing a vocal cord paralysis. In fact, to our knowledge, this is likely the only benign thyroid disease to cause such a paralysis. We present a case of a 57-year-old woman with Reidel thyroiditis and a recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis. The CT and MR imaging features are presented as well as a brief review of this disease.