Vocal cord paralysis can be the result of benign thyroid disease by such mechanisms as compression, stretching, or inflammation. Malignant thyroid disease should always be ruled out in structural thyroid abnormalities. Vocal cord paralysis can also be an incidental finding unrelated to thyroid abnormality.
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