Recurrent laryngeal nerve anastomosis following thyroid surgery
โ Scribed by Haruo Ezaki; Hiroki Ushio; Yasuo Harada; Nobuo Takeichi
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 768 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Vocal cord paralysis is associated with malignant thyroid disease with an incidence of 11.3 per cent'. It is rarely found in association with benign diseases of the thyroid. In the same series of 1200 thyroidectomies a figure of 0.69percent was recorded. The association of recurrent nerve palsy and
Background. Injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve is a well-recognized complication of thyroid surgery. Injury to the superior laryngeal nerve is less documented, perhaps due to the difficulty in recognizing its manifestations. This study was designed to document the incidence of injury to the sup