Scientific article
English

Systematic use of recurrent laryngeal nerve neuromonitoring changes the operative strategy in planned bilateral thyroidectomy

Published inThyroid, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 329-333
Publication date2013
Abstract

One of the worst complications in thyroid surgery is bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis, which can lead to transient or definitive tracheotomy.

Keywords
  • Adult
  • Algorithms
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Laryngoscopy/methods
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Monitoring, Intraoperative/methods
  • Recurrence
  • Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve/pathology
  • Reoperation
  • Thyroid Gland/surgery
  • Thyroid Neoplasms/complications/surgery
  • Thyroidectomy/methods
  • Tracheotomy/methods
  • Vocal Cord Paralysis/etiology/pathology/prevention & control
Citation (ISO format)
SADOWSKI VEUTHEY, Mercedes Samira Doris et al. Systematic use of recurrent laryngeal nerve neuromonitoring changes the operative strategy in planned bilateral thyroidectomy. In: Thyroid, 2013, vol. 23, n° 3, p. 329–333. doi: 10.1089/thy.2012.0368
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