The utility of evaluating true vocal fold motion before thyroid surgery

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 235-238

  Farrag, Tarik Y ^a   Samlan, Robin A ^a   Lin, Frank R ^a   Tufano, Ralph P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic vocal fold immobility; Recurrent laryngeal nerve dissection; Screening laryngoscopic examination of vocal folds; Thyroid surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTION; NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; REVIEW; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID SURGERY; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VOCAL CORD; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; LARYNX DISORDER; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 33645781330     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000191472.02720.1f     Document Type: Review

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