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Could a neck puncture effect your speech?

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Maybe: More details are needed but in theory injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve from a puncture wound could lead to hoarseness. It would be uncommon as an isolated injury as there are many other important structures nearby that would also likely be injured.

Answered 5/22/2016

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Possible not probabl: While it is possible and could be due to nerve injury as mentioned by dr. Handler or to a variety of other theoretical injuries such as a hematoma, fibrosis, direct vocal cord injury, this is not probable.

Answered 3/26/2013

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