Importance of the intraoperative identification of the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve during thyroidectomy: Electromyographic evaluation

Thyroid

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 449-454

  Hurtado Lopez, Luis Mauricio ^a,b   Pacheco Alvarez, Maria Isabel ^a   Montes Castillo, Maria De La Luz ^a   Zaldivar Ramirez, Felipe Rafael ^a  

^a Dr Eduardo Liceaga   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 20044379991     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2005.15.449     Document Type: Article

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