Is the external laryngeal nerve an exclusively motor nerve? The cricothyroid connection branch

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 525-529

  Maranillo, Eva ^a   León, Xavier ^b   Quer, Miquel ^b   Orús, César ^b   Sañudo, Jose Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anatomical variations; External laryngeal nerve; Laryngeal nerves; Larynx anatomy; Recurrent laryngeal nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INNERVATION; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SENSORY NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE;

EID: 0037336365     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200303000-00024     Document Type: Article

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