Risk of Injury to the External Branch of the Superior Laryngeal Nerve in Thyroidectomy
✍ Scribed by Luis Mauricio Hurtado-Lopez; Felipe Rafael Zaldivar-Ramírez
- Book ID
- 110083984
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 557 KB
- Volume
- 112
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0023-852X
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An incidental finding in the anatomy lab showed up a plexus of the external branch of the right superior laryngeal nerve (SLN), including an anastomosis with the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). The external branch of the SLN divided in two extensions: The ventral extension reached the mesopharynx l
Iatrogenic lesions of the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve (EBSLN) during thyroidectomies are not infrequent due to the possibility of anatomic variations of the relationships of this nerve with the superior thyroid vessels. Therefore, based on an anatomic analysis of 30 superior thyr