Relationship between Zuckerkandl's tubercle and the inferior laryngeal nerve including the laryngeal branches

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-113

  Yalçin, Bülent ^a   Poyrazoǧlu, Yavuz ^a   Ozan, Hasan ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Inferior laryngeal nerve; Nerve injury; Recurrent laryngeal nerve; Thyroidectomy; Zuckerkandl's tubercle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THYROID GLAND; ZUCKERKANDL TUBERCLE;

EID: 33846486792     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-006-3346-y     Document Type: Article

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