Immediate recurrent laryngeal nerve reconstruction and vocal outcome

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1657-1661

  Yumoto, Eiji ^a   Sanuki, Tetsuji ^a   Kumai, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Great auricular nerve; Immediate nerve reconstruction; Nerve anastomosis; Recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARYNX CARTILAGE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NERVE SURGERY; PHONATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33748535106     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000233245.27582.fc     Document Type: Article

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