Thyroid cartilage
Common Questions and Answers about Thyroid cartilage
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In plain terms this means that the front wall of your voice box - thyroid cartilage [aka adam's apple] turns into the bone due to calcification.
The article fragment explains it in medical terms:
"The thyroid, cricoid, and greater part of the arytenoid cartilages consist of hyaline cartilage that undergoes calcification and ossification as part of the aging process.
Being a builder im used to cuts, knocks and bangs so thought they knew what they were doing, unfortunatly my symptoms stayed and others materialised, after 3 wks and the swelling had gone down i was left with a protruding and miss-shapen adams apple (not as it was before), i had lost 60% of the upper pitch in my voice, when i swallow my thyroid cartilage clicks on the cartilage above it, food is a problem to swallow, i have to swallow again and again to get some foods down, pain still persists
Thyroid tissue can regrow. One comment on this board was a woman who had a fully regenerated thyroid gland after 40 years!
"Thyroglobulin levels should be undetectable or very low after the surgical removal of the thyroid (thyroidectomy) and/or after subsequent radioactive iodine treatments. If levels are still detectable, there may be normal or cancerous thyroid tissue remaining in the person's body, indicating the need for additional treatment.
They range from an inflammation of your larynx or voice box to an enlarged thyroid cartilage, or even the effects of gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD. Having any of these problems requires that you visit the doctor immediately for a proper diagnosis.
Laryngitis is an inflammation of the voice box and can occur due to an allergy or an infection like a sore throat.
I noticed this weekend a big lump in neck between adams apple and base of neck; the lump moves when i swallow - went to er and it said swollen cartilage - i'm not comfortable with this diagnosis. Anyone else experienced this? thanks.
I'm not sure what your question is...
The popping noise is probably something rubbing against the cartilage in the front of your neck behind the thyroid - it could be thyroid nodule or goiter related, but there are other possibilities too. When you say you can feel the lump "manually" do you mean with your hand, on the front of your thyroid? Or you feel it move in your throat?
I think a visit to an ENT would definitely be helpful.
Hi! It's been quite a while since I posted a question here. About two and half years ago, I found out I had two large nodules on my thyroid. Since that time, I've had them biopsied and then followed and they've showed no changes. My endo was going to release me after this appt. that I had today if they had not changed again.
I can't honestly remember when it started but a while back I noticed when I swallowed spit at a certain angle I would hear a clicking/cartilage (kinda like a bone dislocation sound) type sound in my throat. Only while looking down or at at downward angle. Looking down on my phone or if lying down my neck bent also to look at my phone. If I sit straight it will not do it. If I look down and turn my head either way it also will not do it.
Grade I, softening of the cartilage; Grade II, fissures; Grade III, partial thickness loss of cartilage; Grade IV, exposure of subchondral bone.
The problem with hyaline cartilage, which is what covers the bones inside of joints, is that it cannot regenerate itself. It has limited repair capabilities. If it does repair a small portion of the articular cartilage, it is with fibrocartilage. Fibrocartilage is sort of a scar for cartilage.
I've got a discomfort in my neck, somewhere between my thyroid cartilage and hyroid bone, about 1 inch off of center. I'm a trumpet player and may have torn/streched something down there while playing a long strenuous passage of music about 10 months ago (Finale of Stravinsky's Firebird ballet)str. The discomfort is always present and is often greatest while playing the trumpet. The sensation is a dull tightness, as though there is a lump in the area or someone is pressing on it.
Moderately thinned with full thickness denuded cartilage across the central weightbearing aspect measuring 7 mm wide x 11 mm AP.
Lateral tibial plateau cartilage:
Mildly thinned peripherally.
No lateral joint line osteophytosis.
Medial meniscus:
Grossly intact.
Medial femoral condyle cartilage:
Mildly thinned.
Medial tibial plateau cartilage:
Minimally thinned.
No medial joint line osteophytosis.
First, off, what medication are you taking? Is it a thyroid medication? If so, which one, what dose and how long have you been taking it?
Secondly, yes, it's possible for the thyroid to swell if you have Hashimoto's - it's thyroiditis... the thyroid gets inflamed/swollen (goiter). It could mean you need a higher dose of medication, since Hashimoto's is progressive, meaning that it continues to destroy thyroid tissue until the thyroid is completely destroyed and does nothing.
Right Knee - There is patchy grade 2/3 chondral thinning of the medial compartment articular cartilage. Grade 2 chondral thinning of the patellofemoral cartilage. The lateral compartment cartilage is intact. Mild marginal spurring of the medial compartment. Small focus of multidirectional tearing of the body of the medial meniscus including a small radial component of tear.
Left Knee - There is patchy grade 2/3 chondral thinning of the medial compartment articular cartilage.
Right Knee - There is patchy grade 2/3 chondral thinning of the medial compartment articular cartilage. Grade 2 chondral thinning of the patellofemoral cartilage. The lateral compartment cartilage is intact. Mild marginal spurring of the medial compartment. Small focus of multidirectional tearing of the body of the medial meniscus including a small radial component of tear.
Left Knee - There is patchy grade 2/3 chondral thinning of the medial compartment articular cartilage.
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