Clinical evoked electromyography for recurrent laryngeal nerve preservation: Use of an endotracheal tube electrode and a postcricoid surface electrode

Laryngoscope

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1418-1420

  Rea, J Lee ^b   Khan, Anjum ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; NECK DISSECTION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; PARATHYROID GLAND; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID SURGERY;

CRICOID CARTILAGE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE;

EID: 0344505689     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199809000-00032     Document Type: Article

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