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Incidence of Vocal Cord Paralysis With and Without Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring During Thyroidectomy

Author(s) -

Maisie L. Shindo

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

archives of otolaryngology - head and neck surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-361X

pISSN - 0886-4470

DOI - 10.1001/archotol.133.5.481

Subject(s) - medicine , vocal cord paralysis , paresis , recurrent laryngeal nerve , thyroidectomy , paralysis , surgery , incidence (geometry) , cord , anesthesia , retrospective cohort study , thyroid , physics , optics

To compare the incidence of postoperative vocal cord paresis or paralysis in a cohort of patients who underwent thyroidectomy with and without continuous recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) monitoring by a single senior surgeon. We hypothesize that continuous RLN monitoring reduces the rate of nerve injury during thyroidectomy

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